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11-letter words containing e, p, i, t, h, c

  • nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
  • nonphonetic — not phonetic
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
  • 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.
  • osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
  • osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
  • paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
  • panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
  • pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
  • parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
  • perihepatic — surrounding the liver; located around the liver
  • perithecial — of, pertaining to, or having a perithecium
  • perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
  • persichetti — Vincent, 1915–87, U.S. composer.
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
  • phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
  • pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
  • phenix city — a city in E Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River.
  • philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
  • phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • phoneticize — to represent (speech) in writing by means of a system in which individual symbols correspond regularly with speech sounds.
  • photic zone — the upper layer of a body of water delineated by the depth to which enough sunlight can penetrate to permit photosynthesis.
  • photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
  • 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.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
  • picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
  • pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
  • pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
  • pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
  • pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
  • pitchblende — a massive variety of uraninite, occurring in black pitchlike masses: a major ore of uranium and radium.
  • pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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