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12-letter words containing c, o, n, h

  • on the watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
  • on-the-scene — being at the very place of occurrence: an on-the-scene newscast.
  • onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
  • onychophagia — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
  • onychophoran — any small, predatory, caterpillarlike animal of the phylum Onychophora, common in tropical forests, having stubby legs ending in pincers.
  • open channel — An open channel is a type of flow in which one surface is free (= not restricted by anything).
  • opisthotonic — of or relating to opisthotonos
  • orange march — a parade on Orangemen's day
  • orchestrions — Plural form of orchestrion.
  • orchidomania — an obsession with or passion for orchids
  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • ornithomancy — Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
  • ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
  • ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
  • orthocenters — Plural form of orthocenter.
  • orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
  • orthodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
  • orthogenetic — pertaining to or exhibiting orthogenesis.
  • orthognathic — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
  • orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
  • ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
  • other income — Other income is income that does not come from a company's main business, such as interest.
  • out to lunch — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
  • outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
  • overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
  • overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • ozonic ether — a solution of hydrogen peroxide in ethyl ether.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
  • panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
  • panpharmacon — a remedy or panacea
  • pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • pericynthion — the point at which a spacecraft launched from earth into a lunar orbit is nearest the moon
  • perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  • phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
  • philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • phonocamptic — possessing the property of reflecting sound or producing an echo
  • phonographic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a phonograph.
  • phonological — relating to study of speech sounds
  • phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
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