10-letter words containing p, u, c, i, n
- loving cup — a large cup, as of silver, usually with two or more handles, given as a prize, award, token of esteem or affection, etc.
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- milk punch — a beverage containing milk and alcoholic liquor with sugar, flavoring, etc.
- mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
- municipals — Plural form of municipal.
- occupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- pannicular — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- percutient — anything that strikes against something else
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pincushion — a small cushion into which pins are stuck until needed.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- pound coin — a British coin with a value of one pound sterling
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- principium — a principle.
- production — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- punch line — the climactic phrase or sentence in a joke, speech, advertisement, or humorous story that produces the desired effect.
- punch list — a list of unfinished matters that require attention.
- punctation — punctate condition or marking.
- punctiform — shaped like or of the nature of a point or dot.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- purchasing — buying
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
- scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- sipunculid — an invertebrate of the phylum Sipuncula, comprising the peanut worms.
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- springbuck — springbok.
- 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.