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11-letter words containing c, h, i, e, s

  • misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.
  • mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
  • mischieving — (now Scotland) The causing of damage or terror; rampaging. (from 15th c.).
  • mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • misteaching — Present participle of misteach.
  • moesogothic — of or relating to the Moesogoths or their language.
  • mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
  • multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
  • mustachioed — a mustache.
  • neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
  • nietzschean — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
  • nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
  • noncohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
  • nontheistic — the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism).
  • officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
  • oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • ophicleides — Plural form of ophicleide.
  • orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
  • orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
  • orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
  • orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
  • osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
  • ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • persichetti — Vincent, 1915–87, U.S. composer.
  • 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.
  • pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
  • philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
  • predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
  • prehispanic — Spanish.
  • prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
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