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10-letter words containing i, c, e, p

  • nilpotency — The quality of being nilpotent.
  • nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
  • nociceptor — A sensory receptor for painful stimuli.
  • nonreceipt — Lack of receipt; failure to receive.
  • nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
  • nosepieces — Plural form of nosepiece.
  • noviceship — The state or position of being a novice.
  • nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
  • occupative — relating to work or profession
  • occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • oenophilic — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
  • of a piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • off-pricer — a seller of off-price merchandise.
  • old permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
  • oleophilic — of or relating to a substance that has an affinity for oils and not for water. Compare hydrophobic (def 2).
  • opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
  • open chain — a series of atoms linked in a chain not joined together at its ends, and so represented in its structural formula.
  • ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
  • optometric — Of or pertaining to optometry.
  • orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
  • orthopedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
  • orthopneic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
  • oven chips — chips or fries that can be cooked in the oven
  • overpriced — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.
  • pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
  • pacificate — to pacify.
  • paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
  • paedeutics — the study of teaching
  • page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
  • palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
  • palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
  • palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
  • palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
  • pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
  • pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
  • pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
  • pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
  • paniculate — arranged in panicles.
  • panspermic — relating to panspermia
  • pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
  • paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
  • paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
  • paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
  • paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
  • paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
  • parametric — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
  • paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
  • parcelwise — bit by bit
  • parischane — a parish
  • paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
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