12-letter words containing l, a, n, c, s, h
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- latin school — a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- nasal concha — turbinate (def 4).
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- nicholas iii — (Giovanni Gaetani Orsini) died 1280, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1277–80.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonspherical — not spherical
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
- schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- 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.
- small change — coins of small denomination.
- 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.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- synchronical — happening at the same time
- tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
- the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
- thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
- unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
- unhistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
- unsearchable — not searchable; not lending itself to research or exploration; not to be understood by searching; hidden; unfathomable; mysterious: the unsearchable ways of the universe.
- unsearchably — in an unsearchable manner