10-letter words containing a, c, e, t, y
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- procaryote — 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.
- reactively — tending to react.
- reactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- recreatory — refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- safety car — life car.
- salicylate — a salt or ester of salicylic acid.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- speciality — specialty.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- syndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- systematic — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachymeter — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- tachymetry — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate faster than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- tactlessly — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- terramycin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic, oxytetracycline, used in treating various infections
- texas city — a city in SE Texas, on Galveston Bay.
- ticket day — (on the London Stock Exchange) the day on which selling brokers receive from buying brokers the names of investors who have made purchases during the previous account
- tipsy cake — a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit
- tracklayer — section hand.
- trajectory — the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
- transiency — transient state or quality.
- tree yucca — Joshua tree.
- trenchancy — incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.