12-letter words containing c, h, i, s, e, l
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hysterically — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- irish gaelic — Irish (def 4).
- ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- lichtenstein — Roy, 1923–97, U.S. painter and sculptor.
- 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.
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesolecithal — centrolecithal.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- ochlocracies — Plural form of ochlocracy.
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- persulphuric — denoting a type of acid
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- pitch chisel — a broad-edged chisel for cutting plane surfaces on stones.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of