12-letter words containing c, h, i, n, l
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- picnic lunch — a meal that you take and eat outdoors
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
- pre-hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
- preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
- roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
- saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schindylesis — an articulation or fibrous joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- silicon chip — A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
- synchronical — happening at the same time
- technicality — technical character.
- technicalize — to make technical
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
- technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- technologize — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
- the alliance — the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
- the pliocene — the Pliocene epoch or rock series
- thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
- thick client — a computer having its own hard drive, as opposed to one on a network where most functions are carried out on a central server
- trichinopoly — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
- trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
- unachievable — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- unalphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.