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12-letter words containing c, h, i, t, e, r

  • diphtheritic — pertaining to diphtheria.
  • directorship — a person or thing that directs.
  • disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
  • disenchanter — One who disenchants.
  • ditch-digger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
  • do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • 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.
  • electrophile — (chemistry) a compound or functional group that is attractive to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.
  • electrophori — Plural form of electrophorus.
  • encipherment — The act or process of enciphering; encryption.
  • epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
  • eric the red — ?940–?1010 ad, Norse navigator: discovered and colonized Greenland; father of Leif Ericson
  • erythrocytic — Of or pertaining to erythrocytes.
  • erythromycin — An antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It is similar in its effects to penicillin.
  • etheromaniac — a person who is addicted to ether
  • ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
  • ethnocentric — Evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture.
  • ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
  • eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
  • executorship — The office or position of an executor.
  • extrahepatic — Originating or occurring outside the liver.
  • festschrifts — Plural form of festschrift.
  • filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
  • fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
  • french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
  • french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
  • french twist — French roll.
  • gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
  • geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
  • gift voucher — gift certificate.
  • great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
  • gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
  • hacker ethic — (philosophy)   1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
  • handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
  • haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
  • haricot vert — green bean.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
  • hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
  • helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
  • helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
  • heliocentric — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
  • hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
  • hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
  • hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
  • heroic tenor — a tenor with a dramatic voice
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