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12-letter words containing c, r, a, s, h, d

  • hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
  • hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
  • hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
  • hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
  • hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
  • hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
  • hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
  • icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
  • in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
  • marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
  • merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • on the cards — likely
  • orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
  • orchestrated — Simple past tense and past participle of orchestrate.
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
  • sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scheherazade — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
  • scratch card — a card or ticket having one or more sections coated with an opaque substance that can be scratched off to reveal a possible prize.
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scratchpad i — (language)   A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
  • trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
  • undischarged — gun: not let off
  • unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
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