12-letter words containing c, h, i, p, a, n
- chronophobia — Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- copy machine — A copy machine is the same as a copier.
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
- encephalitic — Of or pertaining to encephalitis.
- encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypnotically — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- 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.
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- interchapter — a short chapter in a book that occurs between two major chapters
- intrahepatic — (anatomy) Within the liver.
- intrapsychic — Within the psyche or mind.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- 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.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- marconigraph — (dated) wireless telegraph.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.