10-letter words containing c, h, y, t
- match play — play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won by each side.
- matriarchy — a family, society, community, or state governed by women.
- merchantry — (dated) The body of merchants taken collectively.
- mesophytic — Relating to a mesophyte.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- microphyte — a microscopic plant.
- myasthenic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
- mycotrophy — the symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a living plant.
- 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.
- mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
- 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.
- nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
- notch baby — a person who was born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1921 and as a retiree received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- orchectomy — orchiectomy.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- 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.
- 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.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- phycobiont — the algae component of a lichen.
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- 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.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychicist — a psychic
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- pyracantha — firethorn.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- pyrrhicist — a person who dances the pyrrhic
- pythogenic — originating from filth or putrescence.
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- rhythmical — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.