15-letter words containing c, a, h, o, t
- nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
- nonphotographic — not involving photographic equipment or techniques
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
- north vancouver — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- northcountryman — a native or inhabitant of the North of England
- not in the race — given or having no chance
- object exchange — (protocol) (OBEX) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack for data exchange.
- ochlocratically — In an ochlocratic way.
- old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
- on the contrary — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
- on the decrease — decreasing
- on the increase — growing, increasing
- on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
- ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
- ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- orthoboric acid — boric acid (def 1). Compare ortho- (def 2).
- orthodontically — from an orthodontic point of view
- orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- orthopsychiatry — an approach to psychiatry concerned with the study and treatment of behavioral disorders, especially of young people.
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- overachievement — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- overorchestrate — to compose or arrange excessively
- palaeoanthropic — relating to palaeoanthropology
- paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
- paraheliotropic — (of leaves) turning away from light; sun-avoiding
- parthenogenetic — development of an egg without fertilization.
- pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- perchloroethane — hexachloroethane.
- phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
- pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
- phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- philanthropical — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
- phoneticization — the representation of speech in writing using a system in which individual symbols reflect speech sounds in a regular manner
- phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
- photoactivation — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
- photodissociate — to split or break up molecules as a result of the absorption of photons
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- photoexcitation — the creation of an increase in energy in atoms, molecules or ions caused by the absorption of a photon