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11-letter words containing p, c, s, h

  • microsphere — a very small medical particle, containing a diagnostic or therapeutic agent, that is injected into the blood
  • mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
  • multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
  • muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
  • mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
  • mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
  • nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
  • nephoscopes — Plural form of nephoscope.
  • nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
  • nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
  • nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
  • on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • ophicleides — Plural form of ophicleide.
  • orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
  • osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
  • osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
  • pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
  • pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
  • pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
  • panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
  • pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • paper chase — the effort to earn a diploma or college degree, especially in law, or a professional certificate or license.
  • parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
  • parapsychic — of or relating to actions of the mind for which there are no scientific explanations
  • parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
  • paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • pas de chat — a jump of one foot over the other.
  • pasigraphic — of or related to pasigraphy
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
  • pataphysics — a supposed branch of philosophy or science that studies imaginary phenomena beyond the realm of metaphysics; the science of imaginary solutions.
  • patch space — An unused block of bits left in a binary so that it can later be modified by insertion of machine-language instructions there (typically, the patch space is modified to contain new code, and the superseded code is patched to contain a jump or call to the patch space). The widening use of HLLs has made this term rare; it is now primarily historical outside IBM shops. See patch, zap, hook.
  • path pascal — Parallel extension of Pascal. Processes have shared access to data objects. Constraints on their synchronisation are specified in a path expression.
  • peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
  • pechora sea — the SE part of the Barents Sea, northwest of Russia
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • persichetti — Vincent, 1915–87, U.S. composer.
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
  • phagocytose — phagocytize.
  • pharisaical — of or relating to the Pharisees.
  • phase space — a hypothetical space constructed so as to have as many coordinates as are necessary to define the state of a given substance or system.
  • pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
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