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12-letter words containing c, h, i, s, n

  • outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • phantasmatic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
  • 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.
  • phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • physiognomic — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
  • pinchcommons — a person who is frugal with food
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
  • posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
  • posthypnotic — of or relating to the period after hypnosis.
  • prenticeship — an apprenticeship
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • psychognosis — the use of hypnosis to study mental phenomena
  • psychonomics — the study of the individual mind in relation to its environment
  • psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
  • pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
  • pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • rechristened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • ring changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
  • rock cornish — a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.
  • saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • satin stitch — a long, straight embroidery stitch worked closely parallel in rows to form a pattern that resembles satin.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scampishness — the quality of being scampish
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • 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.
  • scheveningen — a town in the W Netherlands, near The Hague: seaside resort.
  • 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
  • schizogenous — schizogenetic.
  • schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
  • schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
  • schneidermanRose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
  • school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
  • schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
  • schreinering — to produce a lustrous finish on (a fabric) by subjecting it to pressure exerted by rollers engraved with many fine lines.
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