12-letter words containing a, l, p, h, c
- hyperlogical — reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind: logical thinking.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hypertypical — excessively typical
- hypnotically — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
- hypocalcemia — an abnormally small amount of calcium in the blood.
- hypocalcemic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hypocalcemia.
- hypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypothalamic — Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.
- hypothetical — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- idiopathical — Alternative form of idiopathic.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
- launch party — a party that celebrates the launch of a new magazine, product, etc
- lay preacher — a preacher who is not a member of the clergy
- leptocephali — Plural form of leptocephalus.
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- lithographic — Of, relating to, or produced by lithography.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- machtpolitik — power politics
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- megacephalic — macrocephalic.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- neencephalon — the more recent part of the brain in the evolutionary development of animals, including the cerebral cortex and its related structures.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- ochlophobiac — a person who suffers from ochlophobia
- omphalomancy — Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have.
- omphaloscopy — Introversion.
- open channel — An open channel is a type of flow in which one surface is free (= not restricted by anything).
- optical path — the path of light through a medium, having a magnitude equal to the geometric distance through the system times the index of refraction of the medium.
- orographical — relating to the study of mountains
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- oscillograph — 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.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- paedophiliac — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- palaeolithic — the period of the emergence of primitive man and the manufacture of unpolished chipped stone tools, about 2.5 million to 3 million years ago until about 12 000 bc
- panchen lama — Tashi Lama.
- pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.