9-letter words containing i, n, t, o, c
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- opticians — Plural form of optician.
- optronics — Optoelectronics.
- oscitancy — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- otoconium — (anatomy) An otolith or statolith.
- outcoming — That comes out.
- outcrying — Present participle of outcry.
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- oxycontin — an opiate drug, oxycodone hydrochloride, used as a painkiller and, illegally, as an alternative to heroin
- pack into — If someone packs a lot of something into a limited space or time, they fit a lot into it.
- pactional — relating to an agreement or a bargain
- panoistic — (of insects) producing ova without cells to nurse them
- pantropic — (especially of viruses) attracted to or affecting many types of body tissues.
- panzootic — a disease that affects all the animals in a geographical area
- paratonic — (of a plant movement) occurring in response to an external stimulus
- pectinose — arabinose.
- penticton — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
- pink coat — the coat, usually scarlet, of the hunt uniform worn by the staff and by male members of the hunt.
- placation — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- plication — the act or procedure of folding.
- pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- pontifice — a priest in ancient Rome
- posttonic — immediately following a stressed syllable: a posttonic syllable; a posttonic vowel.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- punctilio — a fine point, particular, or detail, as of conduct, ceremony, or procedure.
- raciation — the evolutionary development of races
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- recondite — dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
- reliction — the process by which water recedes over time, changing the waterline and leaving land permanently exposed
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- sanctions — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.