10-letter words starting with penta
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- pentameter — a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- pentapodic — (of a poetic line or verse) having five metrical feet
- pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- pentaquine — a synthetic antimalarial drug, C18H27N3O, used chiefly in the form of its phosphate
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different track and field events and won by the contestant gaining the highest total score.
- pentatomic — having five atoms in the molecule
- pentatonic — relating to any of several scales consisting of five notes, the most commonly encountered one being composed of the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth degrees of the major diatonic scale
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