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12-letter words containing o, p, h, i, c, l

  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
  • police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
  • polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
  • polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
  • polyrhythmic — the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition.
  • polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • pro-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
  • prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
  • psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
  • psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
  • psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
  • psychosocial — of or relating to the interaction between social and psychological factors.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • scopophiliac — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
  • short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
  • siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
  • silicon chip — A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations.
  • sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
  • spasmophilic — of or noting spasmophilia.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the pliocene — the Pliocene epoch or rock series
  • thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
  • toxophilitic — of or relating to a person who loves archery
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • trichinopoly — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
  • trophy child — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
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