10-letter words containing p, o, n, c
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- polyonymic — relating to a polyonym
- polyphonic — consisting of many voices or sounds.
- ponca city — a city in N Oklahoma.
- ponchielli — Amilcare [ah-meel-kah-re] /ɑˈmil kɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, Italian composer.
- ponderance — weight or significance
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- ponticello — a bridge on a stringed instrument
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontifices — plural of pontifex.
- poop cabin — a cabin situated immediately beneath the poop deck of a ship.
- pornocracy — government or domination of government by whores
- porrection — the act of holding something out for presentation or acceptance
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- pound coin — a British coin with a value of one pound sterling
- pozzolanic — (of a cement admixture) having properties similar to those of pozzolana.
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- pre-censor — to determine arbitrarily in advance what may or may not be permitted in (books, films, news releases, etc.)
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- precession — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- precognize — to know or cognize in advance; to have prior cognizance of (something)
- preconceit — a preconceived idea; a preconception
- preconcert — preceding a concert: a preconcert reception for sponsors.
- precondemn — to condemn beforehand, as before a legitimate trial.
- preconized — to proclaim or commend publicly.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- precontact — prior contact
- precooling — Precooling is a process which improves the performance of a unit by reducing the compressor load and the head pressure.
- prediction — an act of predicting.
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prepotence — the quality of being prepotent
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- prick song — written music.
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princehood — the office or rank of a prince
- pro-acting — serving temporarily, especially as a substitute during another's absence; not permanent; temporary: the acting mayor.
- probenecid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 1 3 H 1 9 NO 4 S, used chiefly in the treatment of gout.
- proceeding — proceeds. something that results or accrues. the total amount derived from a sale or other transaction: The proceeds from the deal were divided equally among us. the profits or returns from a sale, investment, etc.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- prochloron — any spherical, photosynthetic, prokaryotic microorganism of the genus Prochloron, occurring in subtropical and tropical habitats in symbiosis with various invertebrates, especially marine chordates, proposed as ancestral to the chloroplast of green algae and plants.
- procidence — a prolapse
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- production — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.