12-letter words containing h, i, g, o, c
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- pornographic — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- psychognosis — the use of hypnosis to study mental phenomena
- psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- rough collie — a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- sociographic — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stoichiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the cellular components of animal tissues
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
- teaching job — a position as a teacher
- 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.
- thigmotactic — movement of an organism toward or away from any object that provides a mechanical stimulus.
- thiodiglycol — C4H10O2S, a yellowish viscous liquid used as a solvent
- topstitching — decorative stitching, usually near and parallel to a seam, sewn so as to be visible on the right side of a garment, shoe, belt, etc.
- torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
- touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- trichogramma — any minute wasp of the genus Trichogramma, comprising a beneficial group of chalcidflies that parasitize the eggs of a variety of insect pests.
- trichologist — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.