12-letter words containing m, e, c, h
- bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
- benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
- bimorph cell — a piezoelectric transducer consisting of two crystals cemented together, used in microphones, headphones, loudspeakers, etc. to convert vibrations into a voltage output or to convert a signal voltage into vibrations that can produce audible sounds
- biochemistry — Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- bonus scheme — a scheme in a company or other organization according to which employees receive a bonus if they meet specified targets
- booch method — (programming) A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
- calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
- camel's hair — the hair of the camel
- camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
- camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- cash economy — an economic system, or part of one, in which financial transactions are carried out in cash rather than via direct debit, standing order, bank transfer, or credit card
- cash machine — ATM1
- cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
- catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- cathetometer — an instrument measuring minute height differences
- cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
- cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
- cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
- ceramography — the study, analysis, and preparation of ceramic microstructures, usually for industrial use
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chair warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
- chair-warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
- chamaephytes — Plural form of chamaephyte.
- chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- chance music — aleatory music.
- change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- chapter room — a room for the use of the chapter of a religious institution
- characterism — the description of character
- charismatize — to impress or influence by charisma.
- charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- chastisement — Chastisement is the same as punishment.
- chastizement — Alternative form of chastisement.
- chatter mark — any of a series of grooves, pits, and scratches on the surface of a rock, usually made by the movement of a glacier
- checkerbloom — a Californian malvaceous plant, Sidalcea malvaeflora, with pink or purple flowers
- cheese-maker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- cheesemonger — a person dealing in cheese, butter, etc
- chemiosmosis — the mechanism by which the synthesis and utilization of the biochemical energy source ATP is regulated: the energy generated by oxidative phosphorylation generates a proton gradient across the membrane of the mitochondrion that drives the enzymic resynthesis of ATP
- chemiosmotic — relating to the process of chemiosmosis
- chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
- chemosensory — sensitive to chemical stimuli, as the sensory nerve endings that mediate taste and smell.