11-letter words containing c, h, i, p, o, t
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
- polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
- pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
- porphyritic — of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling porphyry, its texture, or its structure.
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- potato chip — a thin slice of potato fried until crisp and usually salted.
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
- protolithic — noting or pertaining to stone implements selected according to suitability of the form to a particular purpose without definite shaping on the part of the user.
- protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
- protophilic — having or involving an affinity for hydrogen ions (protons)
- protophytic — pertaining to the class Protophyta
- psilophytic — (of a plant) that grows well in the dry savannah
- psychotoxic — toxic or harmful to the mind or personality.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
- school trip — educational outing
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- 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.
- sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
- technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
- the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
- the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone
- theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
- thixotropic — the property exhibited by certain gels of becoming liquid when stirred or shaken.
- thyrotropic — capable of stimulating the thyroid gland.
- tomographic — relating to tomography
- topographic — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
- tough pitch — the state of refined copper when it is soft, malleable, and flexible: tough pitch copper.
- toxiphobiac — a person who suffers from toxicophobia
- trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
- trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.