12-letter words containing c, h, a, n, e
- machine head — a metal peg-and-gear mechanism for tuning a string on an instrument such as a guitar
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- machine time — time spent using mechanical equipment
- machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-made — made or constructed by machine
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
- match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
- mechanically — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- mechanicians — Plural form of mechanician.
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- mechlin lace — a fine bobbin lace with raised cord, originally made in Mechlin.
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- 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.
- merchandized — Simple past tense and past participle of merchandize.
- merchandizer — Alternative spelling of merchandiser.
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- mismatchment — an inappropriate match
- moneychanger — a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monothematic — having a single theme.
- monotrichate — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.
- narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- necrographer — a person who writes obituaries
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- needle match — a bitterly fought contest between two competitors or teams who bear each other a grudge
- neencephalon — the more recent part of the brain in the evolutionary development of animals, including the cerebral cortex and its related structures.
- neo-catholic — of or relating to those Anglicans who avowedly prefer the doctrines, rituals, etc., of the Roman Catholic Church to those of the Anglican communion.
- neoanthropic — neanthropic.
- nephropathic — characterized by or relating to nephropathy