12-letter words containing a, s, c, h, e, i
- 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.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesolecithal — centrolecithal.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- mismatchment — an inappropriate match
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- nonspherical — not spherical
- ochlocracies — Plural form of ochlocracy.
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paraesthetic — paresthesia.
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- periphrastic — circumlocutory; roundabout.
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- preachership — the office of a preacher
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
- raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
- 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.
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- 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).
- scampishness — the quality of being scampish
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.