11-letter words containing p, y, i, c
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
- policy loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company to a policyholder with the cash value of the policy serving as security.
- policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
- policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
- policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- policyowner — policyholder.
- politically — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- polyactinal — possessing many rays
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
- polygenetic — Biology. relating to or exhibiting polygenesis.
- polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polymorphic — polymorphism
- polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
- polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- porphyritic — of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling porphyry, its texture, or its structure.
- post-cyclic — denoting rules that apply only after the transformations of a whole cycle
- postpyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
- practically — in effect; virtually: It is practically useless to protest.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- principally — chiefly; mainly.
- privacy act — an act that protects a person against the unauthorized use of personal data by any government agency
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- proactivity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procyclical — cyclic.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prolificacy — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prolificity — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- promycelium — a short filament produced in the germination of a spore that bears small spores and then dies.