12-letter words containing c, h, i, s, o
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
- echinococcus — any of a number of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals.
- ehrlichiosis — (medicine) A tick-borne disease caused by infection with bacteria of the genus Ehrlichia.
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- eosinophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained by eosin.
- eschscholzia — Any of the flowers in the Eschscholzia genus, especially the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica).
- ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- fashion icon — a person or thing that is very well known as being highly fashionable
- first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geomechanics — the study and application of rock and soil mechanics
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemiscotosis — hemianopsia.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- henotheistic — Relating to henotheism.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.