12-letter words containing a, c, h, i, r
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- circle graph — pie chart.
- circus catch — a spectacular or difficult catch, esp. one made by a fielder in baseball or a receiver in football
- city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
- clamjamphrie — rubbish
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- coach driver — a person who drives a coach
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- cochairwoman — a woman who cochairs an organization
- 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.
- coleorrhizae — protective sheath enclosing grass seedlings
- constraineth — Archaic third-person singular form of constrain.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- coprophiliac — of or relating to coprophilia
- corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- corrivalship — the position of a corrival
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- 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.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- 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.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- 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
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- dining chair — high-backed chair used at dinner table
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.