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11-letter words containing s, c, h, i

  • orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
  • orthostatic — relating to or caused by erect posture.
  • orthostichy — a vertical rank or row.
  • osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
  • osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
  • ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
  • panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
  • panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
  • pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
  • parapsychic — of or relating to actions of the mind for which there are no scientific explanations
  • paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • pasigraphic — of or related to pasigraphy
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • pataphysics — a supposed branch of philosophy or science that studies imaginary phenomena beyond the realm of metaphysics; the science of imaginary solutions.
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • persichetti — Vincent, 1915–87, U.S. composer.
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
  • pharisaical — of or relating to the Pharisees.
  • pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
  • 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.
  • philosophic — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
  • 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.
  • physiatrics — physical medicine.
  • physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
  • physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
  • physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • physiciancy — the position, job, or office of physician
  • physiologic — of or relating to physiology.
  • pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
  • 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
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
  • predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
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