8-letter words containing p, i, c, n
- pitcairn — British island in Polynesia, in the South Pacific: 1.8 sq mi (4.6 sq km); pop. 54
- pitch in — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- pitching — any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
- pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
- pittance — a small amount or share.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- platinic — of or containing platinum, especially in the tetravalent state.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- pliocene — noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 10 to 2 million years ago, and characterized by increased size and numbers of mammals, by the growth of mountains, and by global climatic cooling.
- plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- polyenic — relating to a polyene
- pontific — pontifical.
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- precinct — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- prentice — a male given name.
- prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- pretonic — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- pricking — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- princely — greatly liberal; lavish; magnificent: a princely entertainment.
- princeps — first edition.
- princess — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- principe — an island in the Gulf of Guinea, off the W coast of Africa: one of the two chief components of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. 54 sq. mi. (140 sq. km).
- priscian — flourished a.d. c500, Latin grammarian.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- procinct — the state of preparedness
- protonic — a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- province — an administrative division or unit of a country.
- psilocin — a psilocybin metabolite with strong hallucinogenic potency, produced after ingestion of the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psionics — the study of the practical use of psychic powers
- psyching — psych1 .
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- pulicene — flea-ridden
- pulmonic — pulmonary.
- punch in — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punching — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
- punditic — of or relating to pundits
- pycnidia — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- pycnosis — the reduction in size and increase in staining of a cell or its nucleus, usually a feature of cell degeneration
- pycnotic — relating to a theory which holds that matter formation occurred as a result of ether condensation
- pyogenic — producing or generating pus.
- pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
- replicon — any genetic element that can regulate and effect its own replication from initiation to completion.