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12-letter words containing d, e, c, a, h

  • nonadherence — the quality of adhering; steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment: adherence to a party; rigid adherence to rules.
  • octahedrally — in an octahedral manner
  • on the cadge — engaged in cadging
  • on the cards — likely
  • orchestrated — Simple past tense and past participle of orchestrate.
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • 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.
  • orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
  • overachieved — Simple past tense and past participle of overachieve.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
  • paedophiliac — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
  • peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
  • photocathode — a cathode, typically of a cesium or sodium compound, having the property of emitting electrons when activated by light or other radiation.
  • place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
  • punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
  • punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
  • radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
  • sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
  • 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.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • 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
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
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