Definitions for Pica

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Pica pi·ca

Spelling: [pahy-kuh]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ kə/

Pica is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Pica (acip).

Definitions for Pica

noun

1. a 12-point type of a size between small pica and English.
2. the depth of this type size as a unit of linear measurement for type, pages containing type, etc.; one sixth of an inch.
3. a 12-point type, widely used for typewriters, having 10 characters to the inch.
4. an abnormal appetite or craving for substances that are not fit to eat, as chalk or clay, common in malnutrition, pregnancy, etc.

Origin of Pica

1580-90; apparently Medieval Latin pīca pie⁴, on the model of brevier and canon¹, other typ

Examples for Pica

However, she says it is only pica who is going up for it this time.

For it seems pica has a room to herself, and will not give it up or take in any one.

Pietro entreated and threatened, pica wept and caressed, but all in vain.

Replaced in California west of the Sierras by pica nuttalli.

It was based on the pica size most extensively in use in this country.

pica gages are scales marked off in units of 12-point (and half, or 6-point).

These are made in lengths of one yard and in sizes of 6-point (nonpareil), 12-point (pica), and 18-point.

The smallest size for practical use is 48-point, or 4-line pica.

The mother, whose name was pica, may have been of Provenal or French blood.

Phaeton only smiled, and went on distributing type into his case of pica.