10-letter words containing p, a, t, c, h, e
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- ecphractic — having the property of removing obstructions
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- empathetic — Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic.
- emphatical — Emphatic.
- emphractic — medication that closes the pores of the skin
- epicanthic — Denoting a fold of skin from the upper eyelid covering the inner angle of the eye, typical in many peoples of eastern Asia and found as a congenital abnormality elsewhere.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
- eyepatches — Plural form of eyepatch.
- felspathic — feldspathic.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- heat cramp — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- 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.
- hugh capet — Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- keep watch — observe, maintain a vigil
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
- pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- patch test — Medicine/Medical. a test for suspected allergy by application to the skin of a patch impregnated with an allergen: allergic reaction is indicated by redness at the site of application.
- patchcocke — a clown