11-letter words containing t, r, o, c, h
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
- orchid tree — a tree, Bauhinia variegata, of the legume family, native to southeastern Asia, having lavender or purple flowers clustered in the leaf axils, cultivated in warm regions.
- orchidotomy — incision of a testis.
- orchiectomy — excision of one or both testes; castration.
- orecchiette — small ear-shaped pasta pieces
- orthocartan — (mathematics, tool) A system for symbolic mathematics, especially General Relativity, written by A. Krasinski of Warsaw in the early 1980s.
- orthocenter — the point of intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle.
- orthocentre — Point at which the perpendiculars from the angles of a triangle intersect.
- orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
- orthodontic — Of, or relating to the dental speciality of orthodontics.
- orthodromic — relating to orthodromy
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- orthometric — (crystallography) having axes at right angles.
- orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- 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.
- orthophyric — of or relating to a texture in which the groundmass is characterized by closely packed, short, quadrilateral crystals of feldspar larger than those in a trachytic groundmass.
- orthopnoeic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
- orthostatic — relating to or caused by erect posture.
- orthostichy — a vertical rank or row.
- orthotropic — Botany. noting, pertaining to, or exhibiting a mode of vertical growth.
- 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.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- overclothes — clothing worn outside other garments.
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- 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.
- paratrophic — obtaining nourishment from living organic matter; parasitic.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- pct theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- 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.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- phototropic — growing toward or away from the light.
- 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.
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
- porphyritic — of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling porphyry, its texture, or its structure.
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- 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.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.