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12-letter words containing p, y, c, n, i

  • provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • psychognosis — the use of hypnosis to study mental phenomena
  • psychonomics — the study of the individual mind in relation to its environment
  • psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
  • public enemy — a person or thing considered a danger or menace to the public, especially a wanted criminal widely sought by the F.B.I. and local police forces.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
  • pyrogenicity — the characteristic of causing fever
  • pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
  • pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
  • pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
  • scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
  • streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
  • trichinopoly — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
  • trichophyton — a parasitic fungus belonging to the genus Trichophyton that can infect human skin, hair, and nails
  • trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
  • type section — the sequence of strata referred to in establishing a stratigraphic unit, as a member or formation.
  • typification — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
  • underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
  • unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
  • vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
  • wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
  • yachting cap — a cap with a round flat top and a visor
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