12-letter words containing h, o, s, t, c, n
- 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.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- on the cards — likely
- on the cross — diagonally
- on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- on-the-scene — being at the very place of occurrence: an on-the-scene newscast.
- opisthotonic — of or relating to opisthotonos
- orchestrions — Plural form of orchestrion.
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocenters — Plural form of orthocenter.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- orthodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
- phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
- phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- posthypnotic — of or relating to the period after hypnosis.
- psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second sheet — a sheet of blank stationery, used in a letter as the second and following pages to a sheet having a letterhead.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- 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.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- short notice — little warning
- 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
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- 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.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- 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.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- 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.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- sphacelation — the process of mortification