0%

12-letter words containing a, c, n, t, h, e

  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
  • snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stern chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
  • stern-chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synaesthetic — synesthesia.
  • take chances — to behave in a risky manner
  • tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
  • tape machine — a tape recorder.
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • teaching job — a position as a teacher
  • technicality — technical character.
  • technicalize — to make technical
  • technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
  • tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • the alliance — the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
  • the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
  • the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
  • the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
  • thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
  • thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
  • time machine — a theoretical apparatus that would convey one to the past or future.
  • torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
  • transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?