12-letter words containing l, e, c, h, a, t
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- chanterelles — Plural form of chanterelle.
- chanticleers — Plural form of chanticleer.
- characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
- charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
- charity sale — a sale in aid of charity
- chartularies — Plural form of chartulary.
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- chattel real — an interest in land less than a freehold, such as a lease
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chelicerates — Plural form of chelicerate.
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- chi particle — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
- chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
- chloroacetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid
- chloroethane — ethyl chloride.
- chocolatiers — Plural form of chocolatier.
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- clausthalite — a rare mineral, lead selenide, PbSe, occurring in grayish, granular crystals that have a metallic luster.
- claw hatchet — a hatchet with a claw at one end of its head for extracting nails
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
- clutch plate — a plate in a vehicle's clutch that connects to the transmission
- coelacanthic — of or relating to the coelacanth
- cold cathode — a cathode from which electrons are emitted at ambient temperature, due to a high potential gradient at the surface
- cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- concert hall — a hall where concerts are performed
- crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
- cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- cytochemical — the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques.
- data channel — (communications) A channel (on a BRI or PRI line) used to carry control information, to set up connections on the associated bearer channels. The name wasn't too bad back when users were sending voice (not data) over the bearer channels, but in 1997 it's quite a misnomer.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
- ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- echolocation — the general method of locating objects by determining the time for an echo to return and the direction from which it returns, as by radar or sonar.
- echolocators — Plural form of echolocator.
- edith cavell — Edith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.
- electroclash — a type of electronic music, originating in the first decade of the 21st century, that combines modern techno with synthesizer music characteristic of the 1980s
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- eleutherarch — the chief of the eleutheri