10-letter words containing p, i, e, c
- nilpotency — The quality of being nilpotent.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- nociceptor — A sensory receptor for painful stimuli.
- nonreceipt — Lack of receipt; failure to receive.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- nosepieces — Plural form of nosepiece.
- noviceship — The state or position of being a novice.
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- occupative — relating to work or profession
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- oenophilic — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- of a piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- off-pricer — a seller of off-price merchandise.
- old permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- oleophilic — of or relating to a substance that has an affinity for oils and not for water. Compare hydrophobic (def 2).
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- open chain — a series of atoms linked in a chain not joined together at its ends, and so represented in its structural formula.
- ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
- optometric — Of or pertaining to optometry.
- orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
- orthopedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- orthopneic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- oven chips — chips or fries that can be cooked in the oven
- overpriced — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.
- pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
- pacificate — to pacify.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
- pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
- paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- parametric — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- parischane — a parish
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.