9-letter words that end in c
- porphyric — of or relating to porphyria
- posologic — of or relating to doses of medicines
- posttonic — immediately following a stressed syllable: a posttonic syllable; a posttonic vowel.
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- pragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- preadamic — occurring or existing before Adam
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- preexilic — of that period of Jewish history preceding the Babylonian Exile (6th cent. b.c.)
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- probiotic — a usually dairy food or a dietary supplement containing live bacteria that replace or add to the beneficial bacteria normally present in the gastrointestinal tract.
- proclitic — (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the following word and not having an independent accent or phonological status.
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prometric — in favour of the metric system
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- propionic — of or derived from propionic acid.
- proptotic — the forward displacement of an organ.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- proteomic — relating to a proteome
- prothetic — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- protistic — of or relating to the kingdom Protista
- protozoic — containing remains of the Earth's earliest life forms
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- psychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- pyodermic — relating to a skin disease characterized by the production of pus
- pyrogenic — producing or produced by heat or fever.
- pyroxylic — resulting from the action of fire on wood
- quadratic — square.
- quoad hoc — as much as this; to this extent.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- refined c — (RC) An extension of C to directly specify data access rights so that flow analysis, and hence automatic parallelisation, is more effective. Research implementations only. "Refining A Conventional Language For Race-Free Specification Of Parallel Algorithms," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1984 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.380-382.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rhyolitic — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- saccharic — of or derived from saccharin or a saccharine substance.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- salicylic — of or derived from salicylic acid.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- samoyedic — of or relating to the Samoyed people or languages.
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.