12-letter words containing c, h, o, u, r, t
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- hill country — hilly area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- host country — nation staging an international event
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- ichthyosaurs — Plural form of ichthyosaur.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
- naturopathic — (alternative medicine) Of or pertaining to naturopathy or to naturopaths.
- neurochemist — A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry.
- neurotrophic — of or relating to the effect of nerves on the nutritive processes.
- neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- outstretched — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- photoproduct — any product which is produced by a chemical reaction that uses light or other electromagnetic radiation to increase energy of particles
- picture show — motion picture.
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- squash court — an enclosed court used in the game of squash
- synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
- tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.