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10-letter words containing p, i, n, c

  • spss, inc. — (company)   A company selling a variety of software under the general description of "Statistical Product and Service Solutions". The company was founded to distribute and support the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, but now supplies software or four broad markets: data mining, survey/market research, quality improvement, and scientific research.
  • stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
  • stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
  • supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
  • suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
  • suppliancy — suppliance2 .
  • supplicant — supplicating.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • suscipient — a recipient
  • suspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • synaptical — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
  • tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
  • tcherepnin — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
  • teinoscope — an optical device employing prisms to correct the chromatic aberration of light
  • telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • the prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • the-prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • thinkpiece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
  • thrippence — threepence.
  • tippecanoe — a river in N Indiana, flowing SW to the Wabash: battle 1811. 200 miles (320 km) long.
  • toponymics — the study of place-names
  • trackpoint — (hardware)   (Or "pointing stick", "nipple") A small knob found in the middle of some keyboards that works like a very short isometric joystick. Pressing it toward or away from you or from side to side moves the pointer on the screen. Ted Selker brought the concept of an in-keyboard pointing device to IBM in September 1987. TrackPoint was introduced in 1992 on the IBM ThinkPad and later on some desktops. It takes up virtually no extra room on the box or the work area and also requires minimal movement of the hands from the keyboard. Many imitations of highly variable quality appeared. Pointing sticks have also been used in many other notebook brands, including TI, HP, Compac, Dell, Toshiba (e.g. Portege 4000's "AccuPoint II"), and AST (e.g. Ascentia 910N). "TrackPoint" and "Trackpoint" are IBM trademarks.
  • transcript — a written, typewritten, or printed copy; something transcribed or made by transcribing.
  • triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
  • tuck-point — to finish (masonry) with tuck pointing.
  • tympanitic — distention of the abdominal wall, as in peritonitis, caused by the accumulation of gas or air in the intestine or peritoneal cavity.
  • 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.
  • uncoupling — to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go: to uncouple railroad cars.
  • 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
  • unprolific — not prolific or fertile; barren
  • unscripted — not scripted; lacking a script: an unscripted idea for a movie.
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