11-letter words containing c, h, y, m
- phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polychotomy — the division of something into multiple parts
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polymorphic — polymorphism
- pretty much — mostly
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
- psychonomic — of or relating to psychonomics
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rhythmicity — the state or quality of being rhythmical.
- sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
- 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.
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
- synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- the academy — the public park near Athens where Plato taught and founded a school for the study of philosophy
- thermically — in a thermic manner
- thoracotomy — incision into the chest cavity.
- thrombocyte — platelet.
- titanomachy — the unsuccessful revolt of the family of the Titan Iapetus against Zeus
- tracheotomy — the operation of cutting into the trachea.
- 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.
- whimsically — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- yachtswoman — a woman who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
- yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
- youth crime — crime committed by juvenile offenders
- zygomorphic — having bilateral symmetry; divisible lengthwise into similar or symmetrical halves.