11-letter words containing p, o, s, t, c, h
- heteroptics — incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- hopscotched — Simple past tense and past participle of hopscotch.
- horoscopist — One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
- hypnotistic — of or relating to a hypnotist
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
- hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- hypoosmotic — Hypotonic.
- hypoplastic — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
- hypsometric — Of or relating to the use of the hypsometer; hypsographic.
- ichthyopsid — relating to the class Ichthyopsida, which contains amphibians, fishes, and fish-like vertebrates
- isophthalic — Of or pertaining to isophthalic acid and its derivatives.
- loop stitch — any stitch, as the chain stitch, that uses loops in the pattern or process of working.
- lymphocytes — Plural form of lymphocyte.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- 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.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- phagocytose — phagocytize.
- philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- photostatic — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- psilophytic — (of a plant) that grows well in the dry savannah
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.