12-letter words containing c, h, a, n, e
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pitch accent — (in languages such as Ancient Greek or modern Swedish) an accent in which emphatic syllables are pronounced on a higher musical pitch relative to other syllables
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- 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.
- pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- prochein ami — next friend.
- punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
- punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- re-challenge — to challenge (someone or something) again
- reaching jib — genoa.
- rear echelon — (in a military operation) the troops, officers, etc., removed from the combat zone and responsible for administration, matériel, etc.
- reattachment — connecting or fastening again
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
- 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.
- ring machine — a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.
- roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
- 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).
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- scampishness — the quality of being scampish
- scene change — a change of scene in a theatre, where one set is dismantled and another is erected
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- 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-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- 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.