12-letter words containing c, l, e, n, h
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- head balance — headstand.
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- helical scan — denoting a recording technique used with video tapes in which the recorded tracks on the tape are segments of a helix
- heliocentric — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- help screens — computer instructions displayed on a visual display unit
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- holocephalan — (zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; the chimeras.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- hydrocyclone — A hydrocyclone is a vessel used for separating two liquids with different densities, by the circular movement of fluid.
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- in the clear — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
- incharitable — Obsolete form of uncharitable.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- incoherently — without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence.
- interchannel — occurring or existing between two or more channels
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- latch needle — a part of a knitting machine consisting of a thin shaft with a hook on one end and a pivoting latch that closes over the hook so that yarn can be drawn through the developing knitting to make a stitch.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
- lichtenstein — Roy, 1923–97, U.S. painter and sculptor.
- light client — thin client
- lincolnshire — a county in E England. 2272 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km).
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- little minch — a sea channel between Isle of Skye and the central Outer Hebrides Islands, Scotland, connecting the Minch, or North Minch (N), with the Sea of the Hebrides. 14 to 20 miles (23 to 32 km) wide.
- long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- luncheonette — a small restaurant or lunchroom where light meals are served.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis