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11-letter words containing p, o, r, h, y, g

  • hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
  • hypsography — a branch of geography that deals with the measurement and mapping of the topography of the earth above sea level.
  • ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
  • iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
  • kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
  • lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
  • logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
  • macrography — examination or study of an object with the naked eye (opposed to micrography).
  • mammography — x-ray photography of a breast, especially for detection of tumors.
  • micrography — the description or delineation of microscopic objects.
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • myelography — the production of myelograms.
  • myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
  • mythography — a written collection of myths.
  • oligotrophy — the state of being oligotrophic, or deficient in nutrients but high in oxygen.
  • orthography — the art of writing words with the proper letters, according to accepted usage; correct spelling.
  • osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
  • ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
  • paleography — ancient forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.
  • pathography — a biography that focuses on the negative elements of its subject.
  • petroglyphy — the skill or procedure of making rock carvings
  • petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
  • philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
  • phonography — phonetic spelling, writing, or shorthand.
  • photography — the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x-rays, gamma rays, or cosmic rays.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • phytography — the branch of botany dealing with the description of plants.
  • pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
  • prophesying — to foretell or predict.
  • proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
  • psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • radiography — the production of radiographs.
  • reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
  • sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
  • spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
  • typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.
  • typographia — matter relating to printing or printers
  • typographic — of or relating to typography.
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