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11-letter words containing l, i, t, h, c

  • lightswitch — Alternative spelling of light switch.
  • lithochromy — the art or practice of painting on stone
  • lock stitch — a sewing-machine stitch in which two threads are locked together at small intervals.
  • logarithmic — pertaining to a logarithm or logarithms.
  • logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
  • loop stitch — any stitch, as the chain stitch, that uses loops in the pattern or process of working.
  • low-pitched — pitched in a low register or key: a low-pitched aria for the basso.
  • lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
  • lymphocytic — Of, or pertaining to lymphocytes.
  • machicolate — to provide with machicolations.
  • mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
  • matriarchal — the female head of a family or tribal line.
  • metaethical — (ethics) Of or pertaining to metaethics.
  • methacrylic — denoting a type of acid
  • methicillin — a semisynthetic penicillin antibiotic, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 2 NaO 6 S, used principally in the treatment of severe, penicillin-resistant staphylococci infections.
  • microlights — Plural form of microlight.
  • microlithic — pertaining to or characterized by the use of microliths, as a people or culture.
  • misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.
  • moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
  • multichoice — Multiple-choice.
  • multichrome — chromium.
  • multiethnic — involving or pertaining to two or more distinct ethnic groups.
  • multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
  • multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
  • myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
  • nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
  • night latch — a door lock operated from the inside by a knob and from the outside by a key.
  • nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
  • nonathletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
  • northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
  • ochlocratic — Pertaining to ochlocracy.
  • oligochaete — any of various annelids of the family Oligochaeta, including earthworms and certain small, freshwater species, having locomotory setae sunk directly in the body wall.
  • ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • 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.)
  • patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
  • patriarchal — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
  • perithecial — of, pertaining to, or having a perithecium
  • philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
  • philomathic — relating to or enjoying the process of learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
  • phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
  • photophilic — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
  • phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
  • 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.
  • 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
  • pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
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