10-letter words containing h, y, a, c, i
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyphagic — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- quackishly — In a quackish manner.
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- rhythmical — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.
- saccharify — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- scampishly — in a scampish manner
- schizogamy — reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- squirarchy — squirearchy.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate faster than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- thiocyanic — of, from, or relating to a sulphacid (or liquid acid HSCN) having a strong odour but no colour
- trierarchy — the office of a trierarch.
- unchastity — not chaste; not virtuous; not pure: an unchaste woman.
- whisky mac — a drink consisting of whisky and ginger wine
- whiskyjack — (Canada) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).