13-letter words containing p, u, r, c, h
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
- hyposulphuric — relating to sulphur which is in a lower state of oxidation than it is in sulphuric compounds
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
- parish church — local place of worship
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- successorship — the position or state of a successor
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
- the ryder cup — the trophy awarded in a professional golfing competition between teams representing Europe and the US
- the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
- therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.