10-letter words containing p, a, c, h, e
- hepatocyte — a cell of the main tissue of the liver; liver cell.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
- heptastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of seven lines or verses.
- heptateuch — the first seven books of the Old Testament.
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- high place — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
- hugh capet — Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
- hypersparc — (processor) The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- impeaching — Present participle of impeach.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- keep watch — observe, maintain a vigil
- leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- mesoscaphe — a mid-20th century vessel lowered into the sea to a moderate depth for the purpose of underwater exploration
- metaphasic — Relating to metaphase.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- naphthenic — any of a group of hydrocarbon ring compounds of the general formula, C n H 2n , derivatives of cyclopentane and cyclohexane, found in certain petroleums.
- necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- north cape — a point of land on an island at the N tip of Norway: the northernmost point of Europe.
- open chain — a series of atoms linked in a chain not joined together at its ends, and so represented in its structural formula.