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

  • spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
  • spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
  • stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
  • stretch mill — a mill for rolling and stretching seamless tubes, the rolls of each successive stand operating more quickly than those of the preceding.
  • strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
  • strychninism — a condition induced by an overdose or by excessive use of strychnine.
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • superhelical — of, relating to, or consisting of a superhelix
  • swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
  • switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • 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.
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • synchronical — happening at the same time
  • tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
  • tachyphrasia — a communication disorder involving rapid, unintelligible speech
  • tactile hair — any highly sensitive hair of an animal, as the whiskers of a cat or hairs on a hedgehog's snout.
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • technetronic — pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications: a technetronic era.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the crucible — a Sheffield theatre, venue of the annual world professional snooker championship
  • the flickers — the cinema
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the services — the armed forces
  • the triassic — the Triassic period or rock system
  • the-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • theatrically — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
  • theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
  • therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
  • thermometric — an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
  • thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
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