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11-letter words containing h, p, c

  • pachydermic — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
  • 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.)
  • pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
  • panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
  • pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
  • 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.
  • panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
  • panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
  • panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
  • 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
  • paper birch — a North American birch, Betula papyrifera, having a tough bark and yielding a valuable wood: the state tree of New Hampshire.
  • paper chain — a decorative chain of loops of coloured paper
  • paper chase — the effort to earn a diploma or college degree, especially in law, or a professional certificate or license.
  • paper match — book match.
  • parachuting — descent using parachute
  • parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
  • paragraphic — of, relating to, or forming a paragraph.
  • paranephric — located near the kidney
  • paraphiliac — a person with paraphilia
  • parapsychic — of or relating to actions of the mind for which there are no scientific explanations
  • paratrophic — obtaining nourishment from living organic matter; parasitic.
  • parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
  • parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • parochially — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
  • pas de chat — a jump of one foot over the other.
  • pasigraphic — of or related to pasigraphy
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
  • pataphysics — a supposed branch of philosophy or science that studies imaginary phenomena beyond the realm of metaphysics; the science of imaginary solutions.
  • patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
  • patch space — An unused block of bits left in a binary so that it can later be modified by insertion of machine-language instructions there (typically, the patch space is modified to contain new code, and the superseded code is patched to contain a jump or call to the patch space). The widening use of HLLs has made this term rare; it is now primarily historical outside IBM shops. See patch, zap, hook.
  • pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
  • path pascal — Parallel extension of Pascal. Processes have shared access to data objects. Constraints on their synchronisation are specified in a path expression.
  • pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
  • patriarchal — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
  • 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).
  • peach melba — a dessert consisting of cooked peach halves served with vanilla ice cream and Melba sauce.
  • peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
  • peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
  • peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
  • pearl perch — an edible marine fish, Glaucosoma scapulare, of eastern Australian coastal waters.
  • peche melba — peach Melba.
  • pechora sea — the SE part of the Barents Sea, northwest of Russia
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • pedomorphic — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
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