12-letter words containing h, i, t, c, y
- kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- leachability — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monophysitic — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- mythological — of or relating to mythology.
- nonpsychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- nympholeptic — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- orchidectomy — orchiectomy.
- ornithomancy — Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- osteichthyes — the class comprising the bony fishes.
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pericynthion — the point at which a spacecraft launched from earth into a lunar orbit is nearest the moon
- 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
- phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
- phagocytotic — relating to phagocytosis
- phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- photoglyphic — of or relating to photoglyphy
- phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- 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.
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
- polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
- polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
- polyrhythmic — the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition.
- polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
- 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.
- posthypnotic — of or relating to the period after hypnosis.
- postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.