13-letter words containing c, a, n, t, h, p
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- hypercyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
- hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
- hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
- hypothecation — to pledge to a creditor as security without delivering over; mortgage.
- ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- machilipatnam — a city in E Andhra Pradesh state, in S India, on the Bay of Bengal: first British trading settlement 1611.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metencephalon — the anterior section of the hindbrain, comprising the cerebellum and pons.
- mineral pitch — asphalt.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- nonalphabetic — not employing alphabetic order
- nonpathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- northern cape — the largest but least populated province in South Africa, in the NW part of the country; created in 1994 from part of Cape Province: agriculture, mining (esp diamonds). Capital: Kimberley. Pop: 1 145 861 (2011 est). Area: 139 703 sq km (361 830 sq miles)
- on the carpet — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- 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.
- parenthetical — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
- part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
- 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
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
- pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.