10-letter words containing p, a, t, h, i, c
- patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
- petechiate — having or marked with petechiae.
- pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- phenacetin — a white, slightly water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.
- philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phonematic — phonemic.
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phosphatic — of, relating to, or containing phosphates: phosphatic slag.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pictograph — pictogram
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- plainchant — plainsong (defs 1, 2).
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
- teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
- telepathic — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
- theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- tocophobia — an abnormal fear of giving birth or becoming pregnant
- unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unpathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- whitespace — Alternative spelling of white space.