10-letter words containing y, c, a
- ochlocracy — government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.
- octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- octogenary — (obsolete) Of eighty years of age.
- officially — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- officialty — the office, jurisdiction, or charge of an official
- open-carry — the practice of publicly carrying a gun or other weapon that is fully or partially visible.
- oppugnancy — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
- oracularly — In an oracular manner.
- organicity — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- oscitantly — in an oscitant manner
- osculatory — to come into close contact or union.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
- oxycalcium — pertaining to or produced by oxygen and calcium.
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paralympic — of or relating to the Paralympics
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- parrot cry — a remark, complaint, etc that is repeated or imitated mechanically without understanding
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pay a call — visit
- pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- perl-byacc — A modified version of byacc that generates a parser in Perl code, by Rick Ohnemus <[email protected]>. It has a "-p" switch so multiple parsers can be used in one program (C or Perl). Version 1.8.2 should work on most Unix systems. It also works with SAS/C 6.x on Amiga.
- permanency — permanence.
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.