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12-letter words containing h, p, c

  • psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
  • psychomachia — conflict of the soul
  • psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychonomics — the study of the individual mind in relation to its environment
  • psychopathic — of, relating to, or affected with psychopathy.
  • psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
  • psychosocial — of or relating to the interaction between social and psychological factors.
  • psychoticism — the state of being psychotic
  • psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
  • psychotropic — affecting mental activity, behavior, or perception, as a mood-altering drug.
  • psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
  • psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
  • punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
  • punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
  • punching bag — an inflated or stuffed bag, usually suspended, punched with the fists as an exercise.
  • purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
  • purple beech — copper beech.
  • purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
  • purple patch — If someone, especially a sports player or team, goes through a purple patch, they are very successful or lucky for a period.
  • pyrocatechol — catechol.
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
  • pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
  • quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
  • quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
  • rabbit punch — a short, sharp blow to the nape of the neck or the lower part of the skull.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • rappahannock — a river flowing SE from N Virginia into the Chesapeake Bay: Civil War battle 1863. 185 miles (300 km) long.
  • receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
  • reproachable — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
  • reproachless — irreproachable.
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
  • rheoreceptor — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
  • rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
  • rhopaloceral — of or relating to creatures from the Rhopalocera division of animals, which includes all butterflies, distinguished from moths on account of their club-shaped antennae
  • rhynchophore — a member of the Rhynchophora, a former name for the superfamily of beetles (Curculionoidea) that comprises the weevils and bark beetles
  • rhyncophoran — any of various beetles, including the weevils, having the head extended to form a snout
  • rock chopper — a Roman Catholic
  • rostropovich — Mstislav (Leopoldovich) [mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich;; Russian mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] /ˈmɪs təˌslɑv ˌli əˈpoʊl də vɪtʃ;; Russian mstyɪˈslɑf lyɪ əˈpɔl də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).
  • router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
  • sancho panza — Sancho, Sancho Panza.
  • sarcophagous — carnivorous.
  • scampishness — the quality of being scampish
  • scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
  • scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
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