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

  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • shen congwen — 1902–1988, Chinese author.
  • short notice — little warning
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
  • snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • 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
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
  • synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
  • tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
  • teaching job — a position as a teacher
  • technetronic — pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications: a technetronic era.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
  • technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
  • technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
  • technologize — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
  • technostress — any mental stress caused by (too much) interaction with technology
  • tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
  • the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
  • the cenozoic — the Cenozoic era
  • the conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the holocene — the Holocene epoch or rock series
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • the pliocene — the Pliocene epoch or rock series
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