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10-letter words containing i, n, a, p, c

  • monocarpic — producing fruit only once and then dying.
  • monophasic — having one phase.
  • morphactin — any of various synthetic compounds, derived from fluorine and carboxylic acid, that regulate the growth and development of plants.
  • mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
  • municipals — Plural form of municipal.
  • nanoscopic — Having a scale expressed in nanometers.
  • naphthenic — any of a group of hydrocarbon ring compounds of the general formula, C n H 2n , derivatives of cyclopentane and cyclohexane, found in certain petroleums.
  • napoleonic — pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty: the Napoleonic era; a Napoleonic attitude toward one's employees.
  • neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
  • nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
  • non-impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
  • noncapital — (of an offense) not punishable by death.
  • nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
  • nonspacing — (US) alternative spelling of non-spacing.
  • nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
  • nontypical — not typical; unusual
  • notaphilic — of or pertaining to notaphily
  • nyctalopia — night blindness.
  • nyctalopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
  • occupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
  • 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.
  • opsomaniac — a person with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
  • pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
  • pack it in — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
  • pack train — a train, or procession, of pack animals
  • paganistic — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
  • pali canon — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
  • pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
  • pancratian — (in ancient Greece) of, or relating to, the pancratium
  • pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
  • 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.
  • panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
  • panic room — a secure room with a separate telephone line within a house, to which a person can flee if someone breaks in
  • paniculate — arranged in panicles.
  • pannicular — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
  • panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
  • panopticon — a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.
  • 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.
  • pantomimic — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
  • paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
  • paraffinic — of, noting, or characteristic of paraffin wax or a paraffin hydrocarbon.
  • paraphonic — of, relating to, or characterized by paraphonia
  • parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
  • parischane — a parish
  • paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
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