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10-letter words containing c, h, i, r, o, p

  • phosphoric — of or containing phosphorus, especially in the pentavalent state.
  • physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
  • pictograph — pictogram
  • pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
  • pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
  • polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • polychroic — having many colours
  • polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
  • polyhydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) polyhydroxy.
  • princehood — the office or rank of a prince
  • pro-choice — supporting or advocating legalized abortion.
  • prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
  • pyrophobic — an abnormal fear of fire.
  • pyrophoric — capable of igniting spontaneously in air.
  • rheopectic — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
  • rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
  • rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
  • roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
  • sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
  • scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • sophomoric — of or relating to a sophomore or sophomores.
  • spirochete — 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.
  • theophoric — having the name of a god embedded in something, such as a name
  • turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
  • urographic — of or relating to urography
  • xerophilic — Capable of growing and reproducing in conditions with a low availability of water.
  • xerophytic — (botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte.
  • zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.
  • zoomorphic — of or relating to a deity or other being conceived of as having the form of an animal.
  • zootrophic — of or relating to zootrophy
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