12-letter words containing c, a, t, e, r, i
- generatrices — Plural form of generatrix.
- geocentrical — Alternative form of geocentric.
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- geostrategic — Of, pertaining to, or using geostrategy.
- geriatrician — the branch of medicine dealing with the diseases, debilities, and care of aged persons.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grammaticize — (transitive) To render grammatical.
- granite city — a city in SW Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.
- gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
- great circle — a circle on a spherical surface such that the plane containing the circle passes through the center of the sphere. Compare small circle.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- hacker ethic — (philosophy) 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- heterotactic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- hierarchists — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- hieratically — In a hieratic way.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hitch a ride — hitchhike
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hyperacidity — excessive acidity, as of the gastric juice.
- hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hypertypical — excessively typical
- hysterically — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- ice crystals — ice formations
- iliac artery — Also called common iliac artery. either of two large arteries that conduct blood to the pelvis and the legs.
- illiteracies — Plural form of illiteracy.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- in character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.