9-letter words containing p, t, c, a
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- prerectal — in front of the rectum
- prevacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procacity — insolence
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- procreate — to beget or generate (offspring).
- proctodea — parts of the anus
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- punctatim — point for point.
- punctuate — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- pyritical — relating to pyrites
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- re-carpet — to replace the existing carpet (in a room or office, etc)
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recapture — to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
- recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- scan path — (circuit design) A technique used to increase the controllability and observability of a logic circuit by incorporating "scan registers" into the circuit. Normally these act like flip-flops but they can be switched into a "test" mode where they all become one long shift register. This allows data to be clocked serially through all the scan registers and out of an output pin at the same time as new data is clocked in from an input pin. Using this technique, the state of certain points in the circuit can be examined and modified at any time by suspending normal operation and switching to test mode. If the scan path is placed adjacent to the circuit's input and output pins then this is known as "boundary scan".
- scapegoat — a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- simpatico — congenial or like-minded; likable: I find our new neighbor simpatico in every respect.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).