12-letter words containing c, h, a, n, r, o
- 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.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydronically — in a hydronic manner; in a manner relating to a heating system that uses water
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
- iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- inharmonical — Alternative form of inharmonic.
- kittikachorn — Thanom [thah-nom] /θɑˈnɒm/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, Thai army officer and statesman: premier 1963–73.
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
- machine word — word (def 10).
- 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.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- marconigraph — (dated) wireless telegraph.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- 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.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- 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.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- mitochondria — an organelle in the cytoplasm of cells that functions in energy production.
- moneychanger — a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.
- monochromacy — The quality of having only one independent channel for conveying color information in the eye, i.e. total color blindness.
- monochromats — Plural form of monochromat.
- monotrichate — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
- narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- naturopathic — (alternative medicine) Of or pertaining to naturopathy or to naturopaths.
- necrographer — a person who writes obituaries
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- neoanthropic — neanthropic.
- nephropathic — characterized by or relating to nephropathy
- no match for — If one person or thing is no match for another, they are unable to compete successfully with the other person or thing.
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- non-atrophic — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.