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12-letter words containing e, c, o, p, h, y

  • hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypertrophic — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
  • hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
  • hypocalcemia — an abnormally small amount of calcium in the blood.
  • hypocalcemic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hypocalcemia.
  • hypochloride — Misspelling of hypochlorite.
  • hypochlorite — a salt or ester of hypochlorous acid.
  • hypoeutectic — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
  • hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
  • hypoglycemic — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
  • hypothecated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothecate.
  • hypothecator — to pledge to a creditor as security without delivering over; mortgage.
  • hypothetical — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
  • hysteroscopy — (medicine) The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.
  • lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
  • macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
  • microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
  • monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
  • myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
  • myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
  • myrmecophile — An invertebrate or plant that has a symbiotic relationship with ants, such as being tended and protected by ants or living inside an ants' nest.
  • myrmecophily — symbiosis with ants
  • myrmecophyte — A plant that lives in association with a colony of ants. The degree of association varies and is assumed to be symbiotic in some cases.
  • narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
  • nympholeptic — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
  • oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • octyl phenol — a white to pink, water-insoluble, flaky substance having the formula C 1 4 H 2 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of commercial surface-active agents.
  • oophorectomy — the operation of removing one or both ovaries; ovariectomy.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • pericynthion — the point at which a spacecraft launched from earth into a lunar orbit is nearest the moon
  • perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  • petroglyphic — relating to or having the characteristics of a petroglyph or carving made in rock
  • petrophysics — the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phagocytoses — phagocytize.
  • phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
  • polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
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