13-letter words containing h, i, l, o, c
- normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
- ochlocratical — Pertaining to ochlocracy.
- office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- orchestralist — a person who writes or arranges orchestral music
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
- orthocephalic — having a medium or intermediate relation between the height of the skull and the breadth or length.
- orthoepically — In terms of correct pronunciation.
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- orthosilicate — a silicate mineral
- oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
- oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- palm-oil chop — a W African dish made with meat and palm oil
- perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- pharmacologic — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- philosophical — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
- photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied
- photoelectric — pertaining to the electronic or other electric effects produced by light.
- photogeologic — of or relating to photogeology
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- physiological — of or relating to physiology.
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- pitching tool — a masonry chisel for rough work
- plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.