11-letter words containing a, c, n, t, h
- nonteaching — the act or profession of a person who teaches.
- notochordal — Of or pertaining to the notochord.
- nyctanthous — (of plants) flowering at night
- nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- on the case — If you say that someone is on the case, you mean that they are aware of a particular problem and are trying to resolve it.
- on the coat — in disfavour
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orthocartan — (mathematics, tool) A system for symbolic mathematics, especially General Relativity, written by A. Krasinski of Warsaw in the early 1980s.
- outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
- 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.
- 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.
- pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
- parachuting — descent using parachute
- parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- pharyngitic — relating to the medical condition of pharyngitis that is characterized by pain and swelling of the pharynx
- 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.
- phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- phonotactic — of or relating to phonotactics: Phonotactic constraints in English prevent the occurrence of the consonant clusters (sr) and (dl) at the beginning of words.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
- pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
- pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
- pitch chain — power chain.
- pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- ratak chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the E part of the Marshall Islands.
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- scharnhorst — Gerhard Johann David von [gair-hahrt yoh-hahn dah-veet fuh n] /ˈgɛər hɑrt ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈdɑ vit fən/ (Show IPA), 1755–1813, Prussian general.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- schizanthus — any of several plants of the genus Schizanthus, native to Chile, having numerous variously colored flowers resembling small orchids.
- scotch snap — a rhythmic pattern consisting of a short note followed by a long one
- scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
- shamanistic — the animistic religion of northern Asia, embracing a belief in powerful spirits that can be influenced only by shamans.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating