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11-letter words containing p, o, t, c, h

  • perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
  • phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
  • 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.
  • philomathic — relating to or enjoying the process of learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
  • phlebectomy — the surgical excision of a vein or part of a vein
  • phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
  • 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.
  • phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • phoneticize — to represent (speech) in writing by means of a system in which individual symbols correspond regularly with speech sounds.
  • phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
  • phonotactic — of or relating to phonotactics: Phonotactic constraints in English prevent the occurrence of the consonant clusters (sr) and (dl) at the beginning of words.
  • photic zone — the upper layer of a body of water delineated by the depth to which enough sunlight can penetrate to permit photosynthesis.
  • photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
  • photobiotic — living or thriving only in the presence of light.
  • photochromy — a former technique of color photography.
  • photocopier — any electrically operated machine using a photographic method, as the electrostatic process, for making instant copies of written, drawn, or printed material.
  • photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
  • photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
  • photophilic — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
  • photophobic — of or relating to an organism that avoids light.
  • photophonic — of, relating to, or having the properties of a photophone
  • photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
  • 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.
  • phototactic — movement of an organism toward or away from a source of light.
  • phototropic — growing toward or away from the light.
  • phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
  • phycomycete — any of various fungi that resemble algae, as downy mildew.
  • phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
  • pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
  • pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
  • pilot cloth — a type of thick blue cloth used esp to make sailor's coats
  • pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
  • pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
  • pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • pocketphone — a mobile phone
  • polychotomy — the division of something into multiple parts
  • polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
  • polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
  • 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
  • porphyritic — of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling porphyry, its texture, or its structure.
  • 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.
  • potato chip — a thin slice of potato fried until crisp and usually salted.
  • potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
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