10-letter words containing p, i, e, c
- thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
- tippecanoe — a river in N Indiana, flowing SW to the Wabash: battle 1811. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- tipsy cake — a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit
- topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- triple sec — a type of curaçao liqueur.
- triplicate — one of three identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- typescript — a typewritten copy of a literary composition, document, or the like, especially as prepared for a printer.
- typhogenic — producing typhus or typhoid fever.
- un-spliced — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- uncrippled — not crippled
- underpitch — of or relating to a type of groin-vaulted ceiling construction
- underprice — to price (goods or merchandise) lower than the standard price or fair value.
- uneclipsed — not obscured or overshadowed
- unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unimpacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- unit price — rate1 (def 3).
- unoccupied — without occupants; empty; vacant.
- unpacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- unpathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- unpedantic — not pedantic; informal
- unphonetic — not phonetic
- unpickable — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- unpolicied — not politically or socially organized
- unprecious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- unprincely — not befitting or characteristic of a prince
- unscripted — not scripted; lacking a script: an unscripted idea for a movie.
- unspecific — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
- usucapient — (of property) in possession of: occupying
- velocipede — a vehicle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider.
- video clip — short videotape extract
- 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.
- w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- white chip — a white-colored chip having the lowest value (contrasted with blue chip).
- whitespace — Alternative spelling of white space.
- workpieces — Plural form of workpiece.
- xenophilic — an attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
- xenophobic — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
- xenotropic — (of a virus) able to replicate only in a different animal species from the host
- xerophilic — Capable of growing and reproducing in conditions with a low availability of water.
- xerophytic — (botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte.
- z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
- zelophobic — fearful of jealousy; displaying or affected with zelophobia