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12-letter words containing l, i, e, c, h

  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
  • pitch a tale — to tell a story, usually of a fantastic nature
  • pitch chisel — a broad-edged chisel for cutting plane surfaces on stones.
  • pitch circle — an imaginary circle within the profiles of the teeth of a gear, such that it rotates against a similar circle rotating at the same rate on a meshing gear.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
  • polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • pre-hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • reachability — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
  • reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
  • rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
  • roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
  • 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.
  • saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • 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.
  • schererville — a town in NW Indiana.
  • schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
  • schindylesis — an articulation or fibrous joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
  • schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
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