10-letter words containing p, i, a, c
- incapacity — lack of ability, qualification, or strength; incapability.
- incaparina — a cheap high-protein food made of cottonseed, sorghum flours, maize, yeast, etc, used, esp in Latin America, to prevent protein-deficiency diseases
- inch plant — any of several creeping or sprawling tropical American plants of the genus Callisia, having sometimes fragrant flowers in a variety of colors.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.
- inculpable — not culpable; blameless; guiltless.
- inculpably — In an inculpable way; blamelessly.
- inculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of inculpate.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- inoperancy — The quality of being inoperant or inoperative, of lacking the power to be effective or effectual.
- interspace — a space between things.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- iso pascal — A Lex scanner and Yacc parser are in the comp.sources.unix volume 13 archive.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- isopachous — having the same thickness.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- j particle — an early name for the J/psi particle.
- javascript — Alternative capitalization of JavaScript.
- juliet cap — a skullcap, often set with pearls or other gems, worn by women for semiformal or bridal wear.
- karyotypic — Of or pertaining to karyotypes.
- kataphatic — Alternative form of cataphatic.
- kick plate — a metal plate fastened to the bottom of a door to resist blows and scratches.
- kick pleat — an inverted pleat extending upward 6 to 10 inches (15 to 25 cm) from the hemline at the back of a narrow skirt, to allow freedom in walking.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kilopascal — one thousand pascals
- kilpatrick — Hugh Judson [juhd-suh n] /ˈdʒʌd sən/ (Show IPA), 1836–81, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- manscaping — Present participle of manscape.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- mediascape — Communications media as a whole.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- megascopic — Visible to the naked eye.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
- metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metaphasic — Relating to metaphase.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- micrograph — an instrument for executing extremely minute writing or engraving.