11-letter words containing h, p, c
- phototropic — growing toward or away from the light.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- phycocyanin — a blue protein pigment, found in algae, involved in the process of photosynthesis.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phycomycete — any of various fungi that resemble algae, as downy mildew.
- phycophaein — a brownish pigment which is found in seaweed
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- phylloclade — a flattened stem or branch having the function of a leaf.
- physiatrics — physical medicine.
- physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiciancy — the position, job, or office of physician
- physiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- phytic acid — a white to pale-yellow, water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 1 8 O 2 4 P 6 , found in cereal grains: used chiefly to chelate heavy metals during the manufacture of animal fats and vegetable oils and as a water-softening agent.
- phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
- pilot cloth — a type of thick blue cloth used esp to make sailor's coats
- 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.
- pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
- pipe wrench — a tool having two toothed jaws, one fixed and the other free to grip pipes and other tubular objects when the tool is turned in one direction only.
- pitch chain — power chain.
- 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-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
- 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
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- poached egg — A poached egg is an egg cooked gently in boiling water, without its shell.
- pocketphone — a mobile phone
- polyalcohol — polyol.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polychotomy — the division of something into multiple parts
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.