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6-letter words containing p, i, c

  • crisps — very thin slices of potato fried and eaten cold as a snack
  • crispy — Food that is crispy is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
  • cupids — Plural form of cupid.
  • cupri- — containing copper with a valence of two; cupric
  • cupric — of or containing copper in the divalent state
  • cuspid — a tooth having one point; canine tooth
  • cuspis — a cusp
  • cyprid — Any freshwater ostracod of the family Cyprididae.
  • cypris — a member of a genus of small bivalve freshwater crustaceans
  • depict — To depict someone or something means to show or represent them in a work of art such as a drawing or painting.
  • dipcom — Diploma of Commerce
  • epical — (literature) Any book containing 2 or more epics.
  • epodic — Pertaining to or resembling an epode.
  • etypic — unable to conform to type
  • haptic — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
  • hiccup — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
  • hickup — Alternative spelling of hiccup.
  • hippic — Relating to horses.
  • hypnic — relating to or inducing sleep
  • ibm pc — (computer)   International Business Machines Personal Computer. IBM PCs and compatible models from other vendors are the most widely used computer systems in the world. They are typically single user personal computers, although they have been adapted into multi-user models for special applications. Note: "IBM PC" is used in this dictionary to denote IBM and compatible personal computers, and to distinguish these from other personal computers, though the phrase "PC" is often used elsewhere, by those who know no better, to mean "IBM PC or compatible". There are hundreds of models of IBM compatible computers. They are based on Intel's microprocessors: Intel 8086, Intel 8088, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 or Pentium. The models of IBM's first-generation Personal Computer (PC) series have names: IBM PC, IBM PC XT, IBM PC AT, Convertible and Portable. The models of its second generation, the Personal System/2 (PS/2), are known by model number: Model 25, Model 30. Within each series, the models are also commonly referenced by their CPU clock rate. All IBM personal computers are software compatible with each other in general, but not every program will work in every machine. Some programs are time sensitive to a particular speed class. Older programs will not take advantage of newer higher-resolution display standards. The speed of the CPU (microprocessor) is the most significant factor in machine performance. It is determined by its clock rate and the number of bits it can process internally. It is also determined by the number of bits it transfers across its data bus. The second major performance factor is the speed of the hard disk. Although IBM sells printers for PCs, most printers will work with them. As with display hardware, the software vendor must support a wide variety of printers. Each program must be installed with the appropriate printer driver. The original 1981 IBM PC's keyboard was severely criticised by typists for its non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys. In 1984, IBM corrected this on its AT keyboard, but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach. In 1987, it introduced its Enhanced keyboard, which relocated all the function keys and placed the control key in an awkward location for touch typists. The escape key was relocated to the opposite side of the keyboard. By relocating the function keys, IBM made it impossible for software vendors to use them intelligently. What's easy to reach on one keyboard is difficult on the other, and vice versa. To the touch typist, these deficiencies are maddening. An "IBM PC compatible" may have a keyboard which does not recognize every key combination a true IBM PC does, e.g. shifted cursor keys. In addition, the "compatible" vendors sometimes use proprietary keyboard interfaces, preventing you from replacing the keyboard. The 1981 PC had 360K floppy disks. In 1984, IBM introduced the 1.2 megabyte floppy disk along with its AT model. Although often used as backup storage, the high density floppy is not often used for interchangeability. In 1986, IBM introduced the 720K 3.5" microfloppy disk on its Convertible laptop computer. It introduced the 1.44 megabyte double density version with the PS/2 line. These disk drives can be added to existing PCs. Fixed, non-removable, hard disks for IBM compatibles are available with storage capacities from 20 to over 600 megabytes. If a hard disk is added that is not compatible with the existing disk controller, a new controller board must be plugged in. However, one disk's internal standard does not conflict with another, since all programs and data must be copied onto it to begin with. Removable hard disks that hold at least 20 megabytes are also available. When a new peripheral device, such as a monitor or scanner, is added to an IBM compatible, a corresponding, new controller board must be plugged into an expansion slot (in the bus) in order to electronically control its operation. The PC and XT had eight-bit busses; the AT had a 16-bit bus. 16-bit boards will not fit into 8-bit slots, but 8-bit boards will fit into 16-bit slots. Intel 80286 and Intel 80386 computers provide both 8-bit and 16-bit slots, while the 386s also have proprietary 32-bit memory slots. The bus in high-end models of the PS/2 line is called "Micro Channel". EISA is a non-IBM rival to Micro Channel. The original IBM PC came with BASIC in ROM. Later, Basic and BasicA were distributed on floppy but ran and referenced routines in ROM. IBM PC and PS/2 models PC range **Under DOS, RAM is expanded beyond 1M with normal "extended" memory and a memory management program. See also BIOS, display standard.
  • ice-up — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
  • icecap — a thick cover of ice over an area, sloping in all directions from the center.
  • impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
  • incept — to take in; ingest.
  • inclip — to grasp or enclose.
  • incorp — incorporated
  • ipecac — the dried root of a shrubby South American plant, Cephaelis ipecacuanha, of the madder family.
  • kickup — a violent disturbance or argument.
  • lipoic — Of or pertaining to lipoic acid and its derivatives, the lipoates.
  • midcap — (of investments) involving a medium amount of capital
  • myopic — Ophthalmology. pertaining to or having myopia; nearsighted.
  • niepce — Joseph Nicéphore [zhaw-zef nee-sey-fawr] /ʒɔ zɛf ni seɪˈfɔr/ (Show IPA), 1765–1833, French inventor.
  • octopi — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
  • oilcup — a closed cup or can supplying lubricant to a bearing or bearings.
  • optics — the eye.
  • orphic — of or relating to Orpheus.
  • pacify — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
  • pacing — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
  • pacino — Al, full name Alfredo James Pacino. born 1940, US film actor; his films include The Godfather (1972), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Scent of a Woman (1992), for which he won an Oscar, and Insomnia (2002)
  • packit — (file format, tool)   A file format used on the Apple Macintosh to represent collections of Mac files, possibly Huffman compressed. Packing many small related files together before a MacBinary transfer or a translation to BinHex 4.0 is common practice.
  • pact i — An early system on the IBM 701. Version PACT IA was for the IBM 704.
  • paczki — a traditional Polish doughnut, filled with jam or another sweet filling and covered with powdered sugar or icing.
  • panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
  • paochi — a city in W Shaanxi province, in central China.
  • parica — a snuff used by certain Indians of South America containing dimethyltryptamine and other hallucinogenic agents, obtained from the seeds of the tree Piptadenia peregrina.
  • pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
  • pathic — a catamite
  • pc-ism — /P-C-izm/ A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g. by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory or using hard timing loops. Compare ill-behaved, vaxism, Unixism.
  • pclips — Parallel CLIPS - U Lowell. Concurrent independent CLIPS expert systems. They use 'rassert' (remote assert) to enter facts into each other's database. "PCLIPS: A Distributed Expert System Environment", R. Miller, CLIPS Users Group Conf, Aug 1990. E-mail: <[email protected]>(?).
  • pcmcia — (body, standard)   Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. (Or People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms).
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