11-letter words containing p, i, t, c, h
- metanephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- metaphysics — metaphysics.
- metapsychic — relating to metapsychics
- metatrophic — requiring dead organic matter for food.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- mixotrophic — relating to a combination of heterotrophic and autotrophic sustenance
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
- mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
- mycotrophic — (of a plant) symbiotic with a fungus, esp a mycorrhizal fungus
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- mythopoetic — of or relating to the making of myths; causing, producing, or giving rise to myths.
- neanthropic — of or relating to modern forms of humans as compared with extinct species of the genus Homo.
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- nephrotoxic — Damaging or destructive to the kidneys.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
- nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
- nonphonetic — not phonetic
- nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
- orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- 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.
- orthophyric — of or relating to a texture in which the groundmass is characterized by closely packed, short, quadrilateral crystals of feldspar larger than those in a trachytic groundmass.
- orthopnoeic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
- orthotropic — Botany. noting, pertaining to, or exhibiting a mode of vertical growth.
- osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
- osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
- panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
- 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.
- pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
- parachuting — descent using parachute
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- paratrophic — obtaining nourishment from living organic matter; parasitic.
- parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
- paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
- pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
- pataphysics — a supposed branch of philosophy or science that studies imaginary phenomena beyond the realm of metaphysics; the science of imaginary solutions.
- patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- patriarchal — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- perihepatic — surrounding the liver; located around the liver