14-letter words containing p, u, r, c, h
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydrosulphuric — Alternative spelling of hydrosulfuric.
- hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
- hypercalciuria — an abnormally high amount of calcium in the urine.
- hyperconscious — acutely aware.
- hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
- hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- in the picture — informed about a given situation
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- lease-purchase — the continuing use of property or goods under a lease for a stipulated period with option for the lessee to buy and with part of the rental charges credited toward the purchase price.
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parish council — local administrative body
- park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
- pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
- phloroglucinol — a white to yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in analytical chemistry and in the preparation of pharmaceuticals.
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
- plesiochronous — (communications) Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- porcupine fish — 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.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
- purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- rhynchophorous — of or relating to rhynchophores