11-letter words containing s, h, o, p, c
- mesomorphic — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- mesophyllic — (botany) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf.
- mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- micrographs — Plural form of micrograph.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- microphones — Plural form of microphone.
- microphylls — Plural form of microphyll.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- microsphere — a very small medical particle, containing a diagnostic or therapeutic agent, that is injected into the blood
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
- mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
- mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
- nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
- nephoscopes — Plural form of nephoscope.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- ophicleides — Plural form of ophicleide.
- orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
- osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
- osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- pechora sea — the SE part of the Barents Sea, northwest of Russia
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- 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.
- 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.
- physiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- 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
- 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.