10-letter words containing p, c, e, l, t, i
- nilpotency — The quality of being nilpotent.
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
- pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- 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.
- pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- pilot cell — one cell in a battery selected and tested to determine the charge or discharge current for the entire battery.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- pitch line — pitch circle.
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- planetical — planetary
- plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- plasticize — to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- plebiscite — a direct vote of the qualified voters of a state in regard to some important public question.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonectic — characterized by pleonexia
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- 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.
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- point lace — lace made with a needle rather than with bobbins; needlepoint.
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- politicize — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- ponticello — a bridge on a stringed instrument
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- preceptial — preceptive, instructive, didactic; conveying or consisting of precepts
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
- receptible — adapted to or suitable for reception.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.