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10-letter words containing p, e, t, i, c, o

  • prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
  • prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
  • protecting — providing protection or shelter.
  • protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
  • protective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
  • protogenic — (of a compound) able to donate a hydrogen ion (proton) in a chemical reaction
  • protreptic — an educational book or speech
  • provection — (in Celtic languages) the devoicing of a consonant
  • pythogenic — originating from filth or putrescence.
  • 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.
  • rheopectic — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
  • rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
  • scots pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus sylvestris, of Europe and W and N Asia, having blue-green needle-like leaves and brown cones with a small prickle on each scale: a valuable timber tree
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • spec ratio — (benchmark)   Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
  • speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
  • speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
  • spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
  • stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
  • stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
  • stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
  • supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
  • teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
  • teinoscope — an optical device employing prisms to correct the chromatic aberration of light
  • telecopier — a fax machine
  • telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • the police — the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc
  • theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • theophoric — having the name of a god embedded in something, such as a name
  • tippecanoe — a river in N Indiana, flowing SW to the Wabash: battle 1811. 200 miles (320 km) long.
  • topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
  • triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
  • turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
  • typhogenic — producing typhus or typhoid fever.
  • unphonetic — not phonetic
  • voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
  • voiceprint — a graphic representation of a person's voice, showing the component frequencies as analyzed by a sound spectrograph.
  • xenotropic — (of a virus) able to replicate only in a different animal species from the host
  • xerophytic — (botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte.
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