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

  • pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
  • perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
  • perihepatic — surrounding the liver; located around the liver
  • perithecial — of, pertaining to, or having a perithecium
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
  • pharyngitic — relating to the medical condition of pharyngitis that is characterized by pain and swelling of the pharynx
  • phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
  • physiatrics — physical medicine.
  • pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
  • picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
  • 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.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • 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.
  • pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
  • predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • 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).
  • psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
  • ptochocracy — government by the poor
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scratch pad — a pad of paper used for jotting down ideas, informal notes, preliminary writing, etc.
  • shag carpet — shag pile carpet
  • sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
  • shoot craps — to play this game
  • speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
  • spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
  • sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
  • 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.
  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • tachygraphy — shorthand, especially the ancient Greek and Roman handwriting used for rapid stenography and writing.
  • teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • third space — the coffee shop considered as an alternative to a bar or restaurant as a place to socialize outside the home
  • thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
  • tomographic — relating to tomography
  • topographic — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • tulip chair — an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.
  • typographic — of or relating to typography.
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