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
- schneiderman — Rose, 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.