12-letter words containing a, n, t, h, o, c
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- potichomania — the art or process of printing or using paint to decorate the inside of a glass vessel
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- 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.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- 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.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
- teaching job — a position as a teacher
- 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.
- 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 ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- 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.
- thionic acid — any of the five acids of sulfur of the type H 2 S n O 6 , where n is from two to six.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- trichopteran — trichopterous.
- trochanteric — belonging or relating to a trochanter
- unhistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness