10-letter words containing p, e, n, c
- escapement — A mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum.
- escarpment — A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
- etanercept — A drug that treats autoimmune diseases by interfering with the TNF receptor (part of the immune system).
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
- euphonical — (archaic) euphonious; pleasing to the ear.
- exceptions — A person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule.
- excerpting — Present participle of excerpt.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- excipients — Plural form of excipient.
- expectance — Anticipation, hope.
- expectancy — The state of thinking or hoping that something, especially something pleasant, will happen or be the case.
- expedience — (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
- expediency — The quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral; convenience.
- experience — Practical contact with and observation of facts or events.
- expunction — The act of expunging or erasing.
- face-plant — to fall onto one's face, esp when skiing or snowboarding
- fence post — stake or picket of a fence
- fingerpick — a plectrum.worn on the finger.
- french dip — a hot sandwich of roast beef, pork, or lamb, served on a crusty roll over which seasoned pan juices are poured.
- french pox — (in historical use) syphilis.
- funnel cap — any of various basidiomycetous fungi of the genus Clitocybe, characterized by the funnel-shaped caps and, usually, markedly decurrent gills
- genophobic — Relating to or characteristic of genophobia or genophobes.
- geoponical — agricultural
- gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
- gonioscope — an optical instrument used for measuring the angle of the anterior chamber of the eye.
- greenpeace — an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a balance between human progress and environmental conservation. Members take active but nonviolent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea
- hand-piece — handheld, power-operated shears used by a shearer
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hen-pecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
- henpeckery — the state of being harassed or tormented through henpecking
- henpecking — Present participle of henpeck.
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hypernymic — Of or pertaining to hypernyms.
- hyperpneic — characterized by unusually fast breathing
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypnogenic — of or relating to the induction of sleep
- hypocenter — focus (def 5).
- hypocentre — (geology) The focus of an earthquake, directly under the epicentre.
- hypocretin — Either of the peptide hormones orexin.
- iconophile — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- iconoscope — a television camera tube in which a beam of high-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- impartance — Impartation.
- impatience — lack of patience.
- impeaching — Present participle of impeach.