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11-letter words containing c, h, i, p, o, t

  • neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
  • nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
  • noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
  • nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
  • nonphonetic — not phonetic
  • nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
  • orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
  • 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.
  • orthophyric — of or relating to a texture in which the groundmass is characterized by closely packed, short, quadrilateral crystals of feldspar larger than those in a trachytic groundmass.
  • orthopnoeic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
  • orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
  • orthotropic — Botany. noting, pertaining to, or exhibiting a mode of vertical growth.
  • osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
  • osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
  • outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
  • paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
  • pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
  • 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.
  • phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
  • 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.
  • philomathic — relating to or enjoying the process of learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
  • phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
  • 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.
  • phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • phoneticize — to represent (speech) in writing by means of a system in which individual symbols correspond regularly with speech sounds.
  • phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
  • phonotactic — of or relating to phonotactics: Phonotactic constraints in English prevent the occurrence of the consonant clusters (sr) and (dl) at the beginning of words.
  • photic zone — the upper layer of a body of water delineated by the depth to which enough sunlight can penetrate to permit photosynthesis.
  • photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
  • photobiotic — living or thriving only in the presence of light.
  • photocopier — any electrically operated machine using a photographic method, as the electrostatic process, for making instant copies of written, drawn, or printed material.
  • photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
  • photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
  • photophilic — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
  • photophobic — of or relating to an organism that avoids light.
  • photophonic — of, relating to, or having the properties of a photophone
  • photostatic — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
  • phototactic — movement of an organism toward or away from a source of light.
  • phototropic — growing toward or away from the light.
  • phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
  • 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.
  • pilot cloth — a type of thick blue cloth used esp to make sailor's coats
  • pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
  • pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
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