12-letter words containing c, a, l, t, h
- edith cavell — Edith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.
- electroclash — a type of electronic music, originating in the first decade of the 21st century, that combines modern techno with synthesizer music characteristic of the 1980s
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- eleutherarch — the chief of the eleutheri
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- encephalitic — Of or pertaining to encephalitis.
- encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
- enchantingly — In an enchanting manner.
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- esthetically — Alternative spelling of aesthetically.
- ethical code — an ethical code is a set of moral principles used to govern the conduct of a profession
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- ethnological — Of or pertaining to ethnology.
- ethylacetate — Alternative spelling of ethyl acetate.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- feel cheated — If you feel cheated, you feel that you have been let down or treated unfairly.
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- flat-chested — If you describe a woman as flat-chested, you mean that she has small breasts.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- focal length — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- fourth-class — of, relating to, or designated as a class next below third, as for mailing, shipping, etc.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
- genethliacon — A birthday ode.
- geotechnical — of or relating to practical applications of geological science in civil engineering, mining, etc.
- gesellschaft — an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- hatchability — to bring forth (young) from the egg.
- head lettuce — any variety of the lettuce subspecies Lactuca sativa capitata, having leaves that grow in a dense rosette, especially iceberg lettuce and Boston lettuce.
- health check — a medical checkup
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- heterocercal — having an unequally divided tail, characteristic of sharks, rays, and skates.
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.