10-letter words containing n, i, c, e, y
- menacingly — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- mendicancy — the practice of begging, as for alms.
- metronymic — derived from the name of a mother or other female ancestor.
- midcentury — Occurring around the center or middle of the century.
- miscellany — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- miscreancy — the state or condition of a miscreant; villainy.
- myasthenic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
- myelogenic — produced in the bone marrow.
- mythogenic — producing or capable of producing myths.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- negligency — Negligence.
- neocyanine — a dye used to make photographic emulsions sensitive to infrared radiation.
- neurolytic — Pathology. disintegration of nerve tissue. exhaustion of a nerve by excess stimulation.
- nice nelly — a prudish or affectedly modest person, who uses euphemisms
- nice-nelly — characterized by prudishness or excessive modesty: The entrance of his nice-nelly friend stopped the flow of risqué stories.
- nickeltype — an electrotype with a deposit of nickel.
- nilpotency — The quality of being nilpotent.
- noticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- ocean city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- oceanicity — the degree to which the climate of a place is influenced by the sea.
- overnicely — in an overnice manner
- pernickety — persnickety.
- phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phylogenic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phytogenic — of plant origin.
- piercingly — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- pin cherry — any of several species of cherry, especially Prunus padus (European bird cherry) of Europe and Asia, and P. pensylvanica (pin cherry) of the U.S.
- pinchpenny — a miser or niggard.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- princessly — resembling a princess
- prominency — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- pycnocline — a layer, zone, or gradient of changing density, esp. a thin layer of ocean water with a density that increases rapidly with depth
- pythogenic — originating from filth or putrescence.
- queen city — Toronto.
- quiescency — Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.
- recipiency — the act of receiving; reception.
- rescrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- resiliency — the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
- ring cycle — Ring of the Nibelung, The.
- scenically — of or relating to natural scenery.
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- semicolony — a country which is partly colonial or which is officially independent but which in fact depends on or is dominated by another country
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- syncretism — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.