12-letter words containing c, h, e, d, i, t
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hexadactylic — having six fingers or toes
- high-pitched — Music. played or sung at a high pitch.
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
- hitch a ride — hitchhike
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
- hyperacidity — excessive acidity, as of the gastric juice.
- hyperexcited — Very highly excited.
- immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
- in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
- indricothere — a long-necked, long-legged, fossil mammal, Indricotherium transouralicum, related to the rhinoceros and existing 10 to 30 million years ago, possibly the largest and heaviest land mammal.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- ketch-rigged — rigged in the manner of a ketch.
- kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- middle dutch — the Dutch language of the period c1100–c1500. Abbreviation: MD.
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- orchidectomy — orchiectomy.
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- photoexcited — increased in energy due to photoexcitation
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
- rechristened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.