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

on the bench — a long seat for several persons: a bench in the park.
on the block — for sale at auction
on the cadge — engaged in cadging
on the cards — likely
on the cheap — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
on the couch — undergoing psychoanalysis
on the cross — diagonally
on the fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
on the latch — fastened by the latch (sense 1) but not locked or bolted
on the march — If a group of soldiers are on the march, they are marching somewhere.
on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
on the watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
on-the-scene — being at the very place of occurrence: an on-the-scene newscast.
open channel — An open channel is a type of flow in which one surface is free (= not restricted by anything).
orange march — a parade on Orangemen's day
orchestrions — Plural form of orchestrion.
ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
orthocenters — Plural form of orthocenter.
orthogenetic — pertaining to or exhibiting orthogenesis.
ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
other income — Other income is income that does not come from a company's main business, such as interest.
overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
ozonic ether — a solution of hydrogen peroxide in ethyl ether.
packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
panchen lama — Tashi Lama.
pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
pericynthion — the point at which a spacecraft launched from earth into a lunar orbit is nearest the moon
perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
photoinduced — induced by light.
photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images

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