9-letter words containing p, c, e
- imperfect — not perfect; lacking completeness: imperfect knowledge.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- impeticos — to put in a pocket
- implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- imprecise — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- in specie — coined money; coin.
- incapable — not capable.
- incepting — to take in; ingest.
- inception — beginning; start; commencement.
- inceptive — beginning; initial.
- incipient — beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage: an incipient cold.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- jack kemp — Jack F. 1935–2009, U.S. politician: congressman 1970–89.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jampacked — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
- juiced up — intoxicated from alcohol; drunk: When arrested he was definitely juiced.
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep cool — avoid getting hot
- keep pace — go as fast
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- key punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- kneepiece — a piece of armor for protecting the knee, as a poleyn.
- koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- lap dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lap-dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
- legal cap — ruled writing paper in tablet form, measuring approximately 8½ × 13 to 14 inches (22 × 33 to 36 cm).
- leucippus — 5th century bc Greek philosopher, who originated the atomist theory of matter, developed by his disciple, Democritus
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money