11-letter words containing m, o, r, p, h
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mycotrophic — (of a plant) symbiotic with a fungus, esp a mycorrhizal fungus
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- mythography — a written collection of myths.
- nematomorph — any member of the phylum Nematomorpha, having a threadlike body, comprising the horsehair worms.
- nematophore — (within the coenosarc of certain colonial hydrozoans) a small specialized tentacle-like polyp having nematocysts
- nephrectomy — excision of a kidney.
- nephrostome — Zoology. the ciliated opening of a nephridium into the coelom.
- nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
- northampton — a city in Northamptonshire, in central England.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- ommatophore — a tentacle or movable stalk bearing an eye, as in certain snails.
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- oppenheimer — J(ulius) Robert, 1904–67, U.S. nuclear physicist.
- oxymorphone — a potent semisynthetic morphine-derived narcotic analgesic, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 4 , used as a substitute for morphine.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- 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).
- pedomorphic — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phosphorism — chronic phosphorus poisoning.
- photochromy — a former technique of color photography.
- photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- 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.
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- 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.
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
- 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.
- polymorphic — polymorphism
- pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates