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

  • nonreceipt — Lack of receipt; failure to receive.
  • nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
  • orthopneic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
  • 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
  • paniculate — arranged in panicles.
  • pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
  • paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
  • patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
  • pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
  • patna rice — a variety of long-grain rice, used for savoury dishes
  • pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
  • pectinogen — protopectin.
  • pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pentapodic — (of a poetic line or verse) having five metrical feet
  • pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
  • pentatomic — having five atoms in the molecule
  • pentatonic — relating to any of several scales consisting of five notes, the most commonly encountered one being composed of the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth degrees of the major diatonic scale
  • pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
  • penteteric — (of ancient Greek festivals) occurring every fifth year
  • percentile — one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies: Ninety percent of the values lie at or below the ninetieth percentile, ten percent above it.
  • perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • percipient — perceiving or capable of perceiving.
  • percutient — anything that strikes against something else
  • perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
  • perficient — someone who or something that accomplishes or completes a task, etc
  • pericenter — the point at which a heavenly body orbiting around a primary other than the earth or sun is closest to the primary.
  • pericentre — the point in an elliptical orbit that is nearest to the centre of mass of the system
  • pernickety — persnickety.
  • pertinence — pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant: pertinent details.
  • pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
  • phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
  • phenacetin — a white, slightly water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.
  • phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phonematic — phonemic.
  • phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • photogenic — forming an attractive subject for photography or having features that look well in a photograph: a photogenic face.
  • phytogenic — of plant origin.
  • pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
  • pitch cone — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pitch line — pitch circle.
  • pitch pine — any of several pines from which pitch or turpentine is obtained.
  • pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
  • planetical — planetary
  • plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
  • pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
  • pleonectic — characterized by pleonexia
  • pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
  • pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
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