12-letter words containing p, o, t, c, h, e
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- compost heap — an outdoor pile of compostabale material that degrades into compost
- coppersmiths — Plural form of coppersmith.
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- counterpunch — to punch an attacking opponent; return an attack
- croquet hoop — a hoop stuck into a croquet lawn
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- electrophile — (chemistry) a compound or functional group that is attractive to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.
- electrophone — (music) any instrument designed to create sounds using electrical currents.
- electrophori — Plural form of electrophorus.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hepatoxicity — Toxicity that affects the liver.
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- heteroleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having two or more types of ligand.
- heterophilic — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high concept — a simple and often striking idea or premise, as of a story or film, that lends itself to easy promotion and marketing.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- homoeopathic — Alternative spelling of homeopathic.
- hotchpotches — Plural form of hotchpotch.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.