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12-letter words containing m, o, n, c, h

  • rachmaninoff — Sergei Wassilievitch [sur-gey vuh-seel-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1943, Russian pianist and composer.
  • racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
  • schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
  • second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
  • short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
  • shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • 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.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
  • technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
  • theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
  • throckmorton — Francis. 1554–84, English conspirator, who with French and Spanish support plotted (1583) to depose Elizabeth I in favour of Mary, Queen of Scots: executed
  • touch-me-not — any of several plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, especially I. noli-tangere, bearing pods that, when ripe, burst on being touched, scattering the seeds.
  • trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
  • trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
  • unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
  • woman-chaser — a philanderer; womanizer.
  • zymotechnics — the art of managing the fermentation process
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