11-letter words containing ric
- picric acid — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, intensely bitter, poisonous acid, C 6 H 3 N 3 O 7 , used chiefly in explosives.
- piezometric — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
- planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
- pleximetric — relating to a pleximeter
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- porto rican — former official name (until 1932) of Puerto Rico.
- posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
- postpyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
- price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
- price index — an index of the changes in the prices of goods and services, based on the prices of the same goods and services at a period arbitrarily selected as a base, usually expressed as 100.
- price limit — the maximum that somebody is prepared to pay for something
- price point — the price for which something is sold on the retail market, especially in relation to a range of competitive prices: We can't go below the $100 price point for this printer.
- price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
- pricing gun — A pricing gun is a hand-held device used in stores for fixing a price label to a product.
- prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- proto-doric — of or relating to architecture, as in certain Egyptian tombs, supposedly anticipating the Grecian Doric order.
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- puerto rico — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- puffed rice — a type of puffed rice grain that is commonly used in breakfast cereals and snacks
- pump prices — petrol prices
- quadricycle — a vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
- quick trick — a card, or group of cards, that will probably win the first or second trick in a suit, regardless of who plays it or at what declaration.
- radiometric — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
- relubricate — to lubricate again or with new lubricant
- restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rice weevil — a brown weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, that infests, breeds in, and feeds on stored grains, especially rice.
- rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
- richard hoe — Richard, 1812–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of printing-press equipment.
- richard iii — (Duke of Gloucester) 1452–85, king of England 1483–85.
- richard roe — a fictitious name used in legal proceedings for a male party whose true name is not known, used especially as the second such name when two male persons are involved whose real names have not been ascertained.
- ricinus oil — castor oil.
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- rickrolling — the playfully pointless practice of performing or playing the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by the British singer Rick Astley to a person or group of people either at a public event or online by means of a disguised hyperlink
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- sabrmetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- satirically — of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire: satirical novels.
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- sericterium — a silk-producing gland in a silkworm
- sericulture — the raising of silk worms for the production of raw silk.