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11-letter words containing c, h, i, r, o

  • potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
  • prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
  • pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
  • pro-choicer — a person who supports the right of a woman to have an abortion
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
  • prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
  • 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
  • pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
  • rail anchor — a fastening device for attaching the base of a rail to a crosstie.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
  • rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
  • rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
  • richard hoe — Richard, 1812–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of printing-press equipment.
  • richard roe — a fictitious name used in legal proceedings for a male party whose true name is not known, used especially as the second such name when two male persons are involved whose real names have not been ascertained.
  • roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • school trip — educational outing
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
  • scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
  • sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
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