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10-letter words containing p, h, y, c

  • microphyte — a microscopic plant.
  • mycotrophy — the symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a living plant.
  • mysophobic — a dread of dirt or filth.
  • mythopoeic — of or relating to the making of myths; causing, producing, or giving rise to myths.
  • necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
  • necrophily — Necrophilia.
  • nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
  • orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
  • oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
  • pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
  • paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
  • parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
  • parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
  • parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
  • 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.
  • pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
  • pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
  • periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
  • petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
  • phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
  • phatically — in a phatic manner
  • phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
  • phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
  • photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
  • phycobilin — any of a class of red or blue-green pigments found in the red algae and cyanobacteria
  • phycobiont — the algae component of a lichen.
  • phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • phylloclad — cladophyll
  • phylogenic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physiatric — physical medicine.
  • physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
  • physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
  • 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.
  • phytogenic — of plant origin.
  • phytotoxic — of or relating to phytotoxin.
  • picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
  • pin cherry — any of several species of cherry, especially Prunus padus (European bird cherry) of Europe and Asia, and P. pensylvanica (pin cherry) of the U.S.
  • pinchingly — in a mean or pinching way
  • pinchpenny — a miser or niggard.
  • play havoc — to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)
  • play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
  • playschool — preschool, nursery school
  • polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
  • polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
  • polychroic — having many colours
  • polychrome — being of many or various colors.
  • polychromy — the art of employing many colors in decoration, as in painting or architecture.
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