12-letter words containing c, h, o, n, d
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- on the cadge — engaged in cadging
- on the cards — likely
- onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
- orchidomania — an obsession with or passion for orchids
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- orthodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sheet — a sheet of blank stationery, used in a letter as the second and following pages to a sheet having a letterhead.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
- second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- thionic acid — any of the five acids of sulfur of the type H 2 S n O 6 , where n is from two to six.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
- unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
- unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- unencroached — to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits; make gradual inroads: A dictatorship of the majority is encroaching on the rights of the individual.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.