10-letter words containing c, h, i, y
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- matriarchy — a family, society, community, or state governed by women.
- mesophytic — Relating to a mesophyte.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- microphyll — (botany) A leaf having a single unbranched vein, or a structure that is derived from such a leaf.
- microphyte — a microscopic plant.
- monohydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) monohydroxy.
- myasthenic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
- mycorrhiza — a symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus, especially a basidiomycete, with the roots of certain plants, in which the hyphae form a closely woven mass around the rootlets or penetrate the cells of the root.
- mysophobic — a dread of dirt or filth.
- mythically — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- mythicized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythicize.
- mythicizer — One who mythicizes.
- mythicizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythicize.
- mythogenic — producing or capable of producing myths.
- mythologic — (mythology) Of or pertaining to mythology.
- mythopoeic — of or relating to the making of myths; causing, producing, or giving rise to myths.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- nolichucky — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing NW and W to the French Broad River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- only child — sb without siblings
- orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- phycobilin — any of a class of red or blue-green pigments found in the red algae and cyanobacteria
- phycobiont — the algae component of a lichen.
- phylogenic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- 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.
- phytogenic — of plant origin.
- phytotoxic — of or relating to phytotoxin.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pin cherry — any of several species of cherry, especially Prunus padus (European bird cherry) of Europe and Asia, and P. pensylvanica (pin cherry) of the U.S.
- pinchingly — in a mean or pinching way
- pinchpenny — a miser or niggard.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polychroic — having many colours
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.