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12-letter words containing c, h, e, n

  • intrahepatic — (anatomy) Within the liver.
  • intrenchment — Archaic spelling of entrenchment.
  • ion exchange — the process of reciprocal transfer of ions between a solution and a resin or other suitable solid.
  • jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
  • john bircher — Bircher.
  • kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
  • kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
  • kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
  • kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
  • kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
  • kinesthetics — The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body. Referred by some people as the sixth sense.
  • king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
  • kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
  • kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
  • kitchen sink — basin in kitchen
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • kitchen unit — a piece of a fitted kitchen, such as a cupboard or sink unit
  • kitchen-sink — marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements: a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.
  • kitchenettes — Plural form of kitchenette.
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
  • knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
  • laguna beach — a town in S California.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • latch needle — a part of a knitting machine consisting of a thin shaft with a hook on one end and a pivoting latch that closes over the hook so that yarn can be drawn through the developing knitting to make a stitch.
  • law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
  • lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
  • lichtenstein — Roy, 1923–97, U.S. painter and sculptor.
  • light client — thin client
  • lincolnshire — a county in E England. 2272 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km).
  • lisp machine — 1.   (architecture)   Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2.   (hardware, operating system)   A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
  • little minch — a sea channel between Isle of Skye and the central Outer Hebrides Islands, Scotland, connecting the Minch, or North Minch (N), with the Sea of the Hebrides. 14 to 20 miles (23 to 32 km) wide.
  • long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
  • loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • luncheonette — a small restaurant or lunchroom where light meals are served.
  • lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
  • lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
  • machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
  • machine code — (language)   The representation of a computer program that is read and interpreted by the computer hardware (rather than by some other machine code program). A program in machine code consists of a sequence of "instructions" (possibly interspersed with data). An instruction is a binary string, (often written as one or more octal, decimal or hexadecimal numbers). Instructions may be all the same size (e.g. one 32-bit word for many modern RISC microprocessors) or of different sizes, in which case the size of the instruction is determined from the first word (e.g. Motorola 68000) or byte (e.g. Inmos transputer). The collection of all possible instructions for a particular computer is known as its "instruction set". Each instruction typically causes the Central Processing Unit to perform some fairly simple operation like loading a value from memory into a register or adding the numbers in two registers. An instruction consists of an op code and zero or more operands. Different processors have different instruction sets - the collection of possible operations they can perform. Execution of machine code may either be hard-wired into the central processing unit or it may be controlled by microcode. The basic execution cycle consists of fetching the next instruction from main memory, decoding it (determining which action the operation code specifies and the location of any arguments) and executing it by opening various gates (e.g. to allow data to flow from main memory into a CPU register) and enabling functional units (e.g. signalling to the ALU to perform an addition). Humans almost never write programs directly in machine code. Instead, they use programming languages. The simplest kind of programming language is assembly language which usually has a one-to-one correspondence with the resulting machine code instructions but allows the use of mnemonics (ASCII strings) for the "op codes" (the part of the instruction which encodes the basic type of operation to perform) and names for locations in the program (branch labels) and for variables and constants. Other languages are either translated by a compiler into machine code or executed by an interpreter
  • 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
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