12-letter words containing c, r, o, s, h
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- echolocators — Plural form of echolocator.
- ehrlichiosis — (medicine) A tick-borne disease caused by infection with bacteria of the genus Ehrlichia.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- electroclash — a type of electronic music, originating in the first decade of the 21st century, that combines modern techno with synthesizer music characteristic of the 1980s
- electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- erythrocytes — Plural form of erythrocyte.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- forasmuch as — since
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fourth-class — of, relating to, or designated as a class next below third, as for mailing, shipping, etc.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- 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.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- grass hockey — field hockey.
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- 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
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hierocracies — Plural form of hierocracy.
- high-scoring — (of a football etc match) in which a lot of goals are scored
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.