12-letter words containing e, c, h, i
- corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
- cosmochemist — a student of cosmochemistry
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
- cytochemical — the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques.
- dealcoholize — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
- death notice — a public announcement, e.g. in a newspaper, that someone has died
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomized — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
- diphtheritic — pertaining to diphtheria.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- discipleship — (initial capital letter) a member of the Disciples of Christ.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- ditch-digger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
- ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
- 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.