12-letter words containing c, h, a, n, e
- half cadence — a cadence ending with dominant harmony.
- 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.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hamantaschen — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- happenchance — happenstance.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- harness race — a trotting or pacing race for Standardbred horses harnessed to sulkies.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- head balance — headstand.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helical scan — denoting a recording technique used with video tapes in which the recorded tracks on the tape are segments of a helix
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hexacosanoic — as in hexacosanoic acid
- hexadecanoic — Of or pertaining to hexadecanoic acid or its derivatives.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high finance — large-scale financial transactions or institutions.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- hoisin sauce — a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.
- holocephalan — (zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; the chimeras.
- home machine — 1. Synonym home box. 2. The machine that receives your e-mail. These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads e-mail at work.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.