12-letter words containing c, h, r, o, m
- chymotryptic — relating to chymotrypsin
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- cochairwoman — a woman who cochairs an organization
- color scheme — In a room or house, the color scheme is the way in which colors have been used to decorate it.
- come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- common chord — a chord consisting of the keynote, a major or minor third, and a perfect fifth
- common shrew — a small mouse-like long-snouted mammal, Sorex araneus, of the family Soricidae: order Insectivora (insectivores)
- comprehended — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- comprehender — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- consumership — the state of being a consumer
- coppersmiths — Plural form of coppersmith.
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- countercharm — an object or action that is capable of destroying a magical charm
- countermarch — to march or cause to march back along the same route
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptorchism — failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
- cymotrichous — having wavy hair
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- echo chamber — a room or studio with resonant walls for broadcasting or recording echoes or hollow sound effects.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- encroachment — Intrusion on a person's territory, rights, etc.
- enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
- 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
- fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
- forasmuch as — since
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- from scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- gothic armor — white armor of the 15th century, marked especially by much fluting and ornamentation.
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- 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
- heterochrome — heterochromatic.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people