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12-letter words containing e, y, p, i, c

  • operatically — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
  • overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
  • pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
  • pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • peptidolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
  • perceptively — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
  • perceptivity — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
  • perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
  • perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
  • pericynthion — the point at which a spacecraft launched from earth into a lunar orbit is nearest the moon
  • periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
  • perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  • perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • perspicacity — keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
  • petroglyphic — relating to or having the characteristics of a petroglyph or carving made in rock
  • petrophysics — the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • plenipotency — the state of being plenipotent
  • pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
  • pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polypeptidic — relating to a polypeptide
  • polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
  • polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • prediscovery — a previous discovery
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