13-letter words containing a, c, h, r, y
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- macrencephaly — The presence of an abnormally large brain.
- merchant navy — commercial ships
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- monarchically — In a monarchic or monarchical fashion.
- money-changer — a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.
- moneychangers — Plural form of moneychanger.
- morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
- onychophorans — Plural form of onychophoran.
- orchesography — a written study of dancing
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- orthoepically — In terms of correct pronunciation.
- oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- oystercatcher — any of several long-billed wading birds of the genus Haematopus that have chiefly black-and-white plumage and that feed on oysters, clams, mussels, etc.
- parapsychosis — an abnormal psychosis
- parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parry channel — a water channel in N Canada running between Baffin Bay on the E and the Arctic Ocean on the W: separates the Queen Elizabeth Islands (N) from the rest of the Arctic Archipelago.
- parthenocarpy — the production of fruit without fertilization of an egg in the ovary.
- party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
- patriarchally — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
- perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- picardy third — a major third in the final tonic chord of a composition written in a minor key.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- primary cache — (hardware, architecture) (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- rheologically — in a rheological manner