9-letter words containing p, e, n, c, o, t
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- nonpoetic — not poetic
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- open-cast — open-cut.
- panchetto — a Renaissance chair having three splayed legs and a shaped back joined into a solid wooden seat.
- pectinose — arabinose.
- penobscot — a river flowing S from N Maine into Penobscot Bay. 350 miles (565 km) long.
- pentecost — a Christian festival celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles; Whitsunday.
- penticton — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- pontifice — a priest in ancient Rome
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- precentor — a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- 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.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- technopop — synthpop.
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- two-pence — (used with a singular or plural verb) British. a sum of two pennies.
- zapotecan — a group of Amerindian languages spoken mainly in Oaxaca, Mexico