11-letter words containing c, r, o, t, h, e
- netherstock — a stocking
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- noncoherent — Not coherent.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- octahedrite — anatase.
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- octahydrate — (chemistry) A hydrate whose solid contains eight molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- orchestrate — Arrange or score (music) for orchestral performance.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
- orchid tree — a tree, Bauhinia variegata, of the legume family, native to southeastern Asia, having lavender or purple flowers clustered in the leaf axils, cultivated in warm regions.
- orchiectomy — excision of one or both testes; castration.
- orecchiette — small ear-shaped pasta pieces
- orthocenter — the point of intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle.
- orthocentre — Point at which the perpendiculars from the angles of a triangle intersect.
- orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- orthometric — (crystallography) having axes at right angles.
- orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- 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.
- orthopnoeic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- 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.
- overclothes — clothing worn outside other garments.
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- pct theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
- 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.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- 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.
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- 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.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- propter hoc — because of this.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- remote echo — (communications) (Obsolete: "full-duplex") A mode of operation of communicating programs or devices in which the sending system does not display the characters the user enters, but only sends them to the remote system which then "echoes" them back to be displayed to the user. This lets the operator see not only typing errors, but also transmission errors. This is now the usual mode of most systems with remote users. Contrast: local echo.