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11-letter words containing a, r, t, h, o, c

  • old scratch — the devil; Satan.
  • on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
  • orchardists — Plural form of orchardist.
  • orchestrate — Arrange or score (music) for orchestral performance.
  • orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
  • orthocartan — (mathematics, tool)   A system for symbolic mathematics, especially General Relativity, written by A. Krasinski of Warsaw in the early 1980s.
  • orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
  • orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
  • orthostatic — relating to or caused by erect posture.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • paratrophic — obtaining nourishment from living organic matter; parasitic.
  • pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
  • perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
  • phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
  • pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
  • pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
  • potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
  • protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
  • ptochocracy — government by the poor
  • rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
  • rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
  • scharnhorst — Gerhard Johann David von [gair-hahrt yoh-hahn dah-veet fuh n] /ˈgɛər hɑrt ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈdɑ vit fən/ (Show IPA), 1755–1813, Prussian general.
  • schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
  • shoot craps — to play this game
  • shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • storm watch — watch (def 20).
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
  • tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • taurocholic — of or derived from taurocholic acid.
  • tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
  • technocracy — a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
  • the creator — an epithet of God
  • theoretical — given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.
  • thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
  • thoracotomy — incision into the chest cavity.
  • thrasonical — boastful; vainglorious.
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