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9-letter words containing o, a, p, e, c

  • phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
  • phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
  • phoenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
  • phonecard — calling card (def 3).
  • piacevole — (to be performed) in a pleasant, agreeable manner
  • pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • poachable — able to be poached
  • pocatello — a city in SE Idaho.
  • podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
  • podotheca — the horny integument covering unfeathered portions of the legs and toes of most birds.
  • poi dance — a women's formation dance that involves singing and manipulating a poi
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
  • policeman — a member of a police force or body.
  • pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
  • porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
  • post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
  • pothecary — apothecary.
  • poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • power mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
  • preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
  • preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
  • precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
  • precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
  • premosaic — of the period before Moses
  • preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
  • proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • procellas — pucellas.
  • procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
  • procreate — to beget or generate (offspring).
  • proctodea — parts of the anus
  • proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
  • provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
  • ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
  • pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
  • 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.
  • recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
  • retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
  • roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
  • scalloped — Scalloped objects are decorated with a series of small curves along the edges.
  • scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
  • scapegoat — a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
  • scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
  • scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
  • scoopable — able to be scooped
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