12-letter words that end in hic
- non-atrophic — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
- non-strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- octastrophic — having or containing eight verses or strophes
- oligotrophic — (of a lake) characterized by a low accumulation of dissolved nutrient salts, supporting but a sparse growth of algae and other organisms, and having a high oxygen content owing to the low organic content.
- ophiomorphic — snakelike in form, or resembling the form of a snake
- orthognathic — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- orthographic — of or relating to orthography.
- paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
- palaeolithic — the period of the emergence of primitive man and the manufacture of unpolished chipped stone tools, about 2.5 million to 3 million years ago until about 12 000 bc
- peristrephic — that turns around or revolves
- petroglyphic — relating to or having the characteristics of a petroglyph or carving made in rock
- phonographic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a phonograph.
- photoglyphic — of or relating to photoglyphy
- photographic — of or relating to photography.
- phototrophic — any organism that uses light as its principal source of energy.
- pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- pornographic — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- protomorphic — having a primitive character or structure.
- prototrophic — (especially of certain bacteria) requiring only inorganic substances for growth.
- psychopathic — of, relating to, or affected with psychopathy.
- radical chic — the patronage of extremists or left-wing radicals by rich or famous people, as through invitations to social functions or public expressions of support.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- sociographic — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stichomythic — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
- thyrotrophic — capable of stimulating the thyroid gland.