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11-letter words containing c, h, o, p, a

  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • poached egg — A poached egg is an egg cooked gently in boiling water, without its shell.
  • polyalcohol — polyol.
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • 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.
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
  • prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
  • protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
  • psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
  • psychopathy — a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
  • ptochocracy — government by the poor
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
  • schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
  • scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • schwarzkopfElisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • scopophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scopophobia — the fear of being observed
  • scotch snap — a rhythmic pattern consisting of a short note followed by a long one
  • scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
  • scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
  • 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.
  • sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
  • shoot craps — to play this game
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