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12-letter words containing h, e, n

  • broken-check — a check pattern in which the rectangular shapes are slightly irregular.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • bronchogenic — bronchial in origin
  • bronchoscope — an instrument for examining and providing access to the interior of the bronchial tubes
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • by the dozen — in large quantities
  • cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • can't happen — (programming)   The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled by emitting a fatal error message and terminating or crashing, since there is little else that can be done. Some case variant of "can't happen" is also often the text emitted if the "impossible" error actually happens. Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitually are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to head off. See also firewall code, professional programming.
  • cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • canine tooth — canine (def 2).
  • canvas shoes — soft shoes with a canvas upper
  • cape dezhnev — a cape in NE Russia at the E end of Chukchi Peninsula: the northeasternmost point of Asia
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
  • cash advance — an amount of money borrowed as a short-term loan against a salary, credit card, etc
  • cash economy — an economic system, or part of one, in which financial transactions are carried out in cash rather than via direct debit, standing order, bank transfer, or credit card
  • cash machine — ATM1
  • cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
  • cash-in-lieu — Cash-in-lieu is payment of cash instead of stock when a stock splits or changes and the shareholder only owns a partial share.
  • catching pen — a pen adjacent to a shearer's stand containing the sheep ready for shearing
  • catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
  • catherine ii — known as Catherine the Great. 1729–96, empress of Russia (1762–96), during whose reign Russia extended her boundaries at the expense of Turkey, Sweden, and Poland: she was a patron of literature and the arts
  • center punch — a steel punch for marking a spot where a hole is to be drilled
  • center wheel — the wheel driving the minute and hour hands of a timepiece.
  • centillionth — (in Britain and Germany) a number equal to 10–600
  • centre punch — a small steel tool with a conical tip used to punch a small indentation at the location of the centre of a hole to be drilled
  • centrosphere — the portion of the centrosome surrounding the centriole; center of an aster
  • ch-ien--lung — (Kao Tsung) 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.
  • chaetognaths — Plural form of chaetognath.
  • chain letter — A chain letter is a letter, often with a promise of money, that is sent to several people who send copies on to several more people. Chain letters are illegal in some countries.
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
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