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12-letter words containing c, h, i, t, a, s

  • metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
  • misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • mismatchment — an inappropriate match
  • moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
  • natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
  • neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
  • nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
  • octastichous — relating to a particular coiled distribution of leaves on the stem that is characterized by having eight leaves per coil on the stem
  • octastrophic — having or containing eight verses or strophes
  • oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
  • optic chiasm — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.
  • orthoclastic — (of a crystal) having cleavages at right angles to each other.
  • orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • paraesthetic — paresthesia.
  • paraphrastic — having the nature of a paraphrase.
  • parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • periphrastic — circumlocutory; roundabout.
  • phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
  • 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.
  • phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
  • phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
  • 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.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • psammophytic — relating to psammophytes
  • psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
  • psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
  • psychopathic — of, relating to, or affected with psychopathy.
  • quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
  • radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
  • 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
  • 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
  • schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
  • schizothymia — the condition of being schizoid or introverted. It encompasses elements of schizophrenia but does not involve the same depth of psychological disturbance
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
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