12-letter words containing a, c, h, e, r
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- coin changer — a machine that gives change rapidly, as to a customer, typically operated by a manual keyboard and often used in association with a cash register.
- cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
- coleorrhizae — protective sheath enclosing grass seedlings
- colour phase — a seasonal change in the coloration of some animals
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- concert hall — a hall where concerts are performed
- constraineth — Archaic third-person singular form of constrain.
- coresearcher — a joint researcher
- corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
- coronal hole — a part of the solar corona that appears dark on optical and x-ray images and is characterized by low temperature and low density.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- countercharm — an object or action that is capable of destroying a magical charm
- counterearth — (in Pythagorean astronomy) a planet, out of sight from our part of the earth, whose shadow upon the sun and moon, cast by a central fire that is also out of sight, causes the eclipses.
- countermarch — to march or cause to march back along the same route
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- cover charge — A cover charge is a sum of money that you must pay in some restaurants and nightclubs in addition to the money that you pay there for your food and drink.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crash course — A crash course in a particular subject is a short course in which you are taught basic facts or skills, for example before you start a new job.
- crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- cream cheese — Cream cheese is a very rich, soft white cheese.
- cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
- creaturehood — the state of being a creature
- crepe-hanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crowned head — a monarch
- cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- daughtercard — daughterboard
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.