12-letter words containing h, i, c
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night office — the office for matins.
- night school — a school held in the evening, especially for working adults and others who are unable to attend school during the day.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nomothetical — Nomothetic.
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- non-athletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- non-atrophic — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- non-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
- non-cohesion — the act or state of cohering, uniting, or sticking together.
- non-cohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
- non-hispanic — Spanish.
- non-matching — not matching: a nonmatching set of furniture.
- non-strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- nonalcoholic — not being or containing alcohol: nonalcoholic beverages.
- nonarchitect — a person or builder who is not an architect
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonpsychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nontechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- normothermic — (medicine) Having a normal body temperature.
- north africa — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
- north-facing — facing towards the north
- nothing much — not a lot
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleophilic — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nympholeptic — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- nymphomaniac — a woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire.
- object chill — ["Object CHILL - An Object Oriented Language for Systems Implementation", J. Winkler et al, ACM Comp Sci Conf 1992, pp. 139-147].
- ochlocracies — Plural form of ochlocracy.
- ochlophobiac — a person who suffers from ochlophobia
- octastichous — relating to a particular coiled distribution of leaves on the stem that is characterized by having eight leaves per coil on the stem
- octastrophic — having or containing eight verses or strophes
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
- old catholic — a member of any of several European churches professing to be truly Catholic but rejecting certain modern Roman Catholic doctrines, dogmas, and practices, especially the dogma of papal infallibility.
- oligarchical — of, relating to, or having the form of an oligarchy.
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
- oligotrophic — (of a lake) characterized by a low accumulation of dissolved nutrient salts, supporting but a sparse growth of algae and other organisms, and having a high oxygen content owing to the low organic content.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.