12-letter words containing a, c, h, i, n, s
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- latin school — a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- machinations — an act or instance of machinating.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- macintosh ii — (computer) (Mac II) A version of Apple's Macintosh personal computer, released in March 1987, using the Motorola 68020 CPU, which runs at a higher clock rate than the Motorola 68000 used in the original Mac. The Mac II has a full 32-bit data bus instead of a 16-bit bus. Mac II models have built-in 40 to 160 megabyte hard disks and can take up to eight megabytes of RAM (and more as denser memory chips arive). The Mac II was the first Macintosh to provide a colour graphics option, with up to 256 colours on screen at a 640x480 resolution. Mac II models are designed for expandability with three (Macintosh IIcx) or six (II & IIx) built-in NuBus expansion slots for additional peripheral and coprocessor boards.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
- mechanicians — Plural form of mechanician.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- mismatchment — an inappropriate match
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- nicholas iii — (Giovanni Gaetani Orsini) died 1280, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1277–80.
- non-hispanic — Spanish.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonspherical — not spherical
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- phantasmatic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- ring changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
- saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- sanity check — (programming) 1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
- satin stitch — a long, straight embroidery stitch worked closely parallel in rows to form a pattern that resembles satin.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scampishness — the quality of being scampish
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.