11-letter words containing c, r, i, t, h, o
- orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthophyric — of or relating to a texture in which the groundmass is characterized by closely packed, short, quadrilateral crystals of feldspar larger than those in a trachytic groundmass.
- orthopnoeic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
- orthostatic — relating to or caused by erect posture.
- orthostichy — a vertical rank or row.
- orthotropic — Botany. noting, pertaining to, or exhibiting a mode of vertical growth.
- ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- paratrophic — obtaining nourishment from living organic matter; parasitic.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- photocopier — any electrically operated machine using a photographic method, as the electrostatic process, for making instant copies of written, drawn, or printed material.
- photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
- phototropic — growing toward or away from the light.
- pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
- pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
- porphyritic — of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling porphyry, its texture, or its structure.
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
- 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.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- 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.
- 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.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- school trip — educational outing
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
- 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.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity