9-letter words containing p, c, i, m
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypomanic — Afflicted with a mild state of mania.
- hyponymic — Of or pertaining to hyponyms.
- hypoxemic — inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
- ibm pc at — (computer) ("Advanced Technology") A version of the IBM PC, released in Aug 1984 with an Intel 80286 processor, a 16-bit bus, a medium-speed hard disk and a 1.2 megabyte floppy disk drive. It had a larger case than the PC, which allowed it to accept "tall cards". The AT keyboard corrected the PC's non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach.
- ibm pc xt — (computer) An IBM PC with a (slow) hard disk. The XT was released in March 1983. It had an Intel 8088 CPU. The XT/370, released in October 1983, added IBM 370 mainframe emulation, and the XT 286 followed in September 1986 with an Intel 80286 CPU [Why?].
- impacable — (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- impacting — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
- impaction — an act or instance of impacting.
- impactite — a glassy or crystalline material composed of slag and meteoric materials, produced by the impact of a meteorite striking the earth.
- impactive — caused by impact: impactive pain.
- impeached — Simple past tense and past participle of impeach.
- impeaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impeach.
- impeccant — Without sin; impeccable.
- impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- imperfect — not perfect; lacking completeness: imperfect knowledge.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- impeticos — to put in a pocket
- implicant — (propositional calculus) The hypothesis of an implication.
- implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- implicity — implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
- impolitic — not politic, expedient, or judicious.
- 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.
- incompact — not compact; loose.
- incompass — Archaic form of encompass.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- megalopic — having large eyes
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- micro-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a very small market capitalization, usually under $250 million.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microcopy — a microphotographic copy of a printed page or the like, as in microfilm or microfiche.
- micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- micropump — a tiny pump implanted under the skin for the timed administration of medication.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- microslop — (company, abuse) A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.