12-letter words containing n, i, c, h, o
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nomothetical — Nomothetic.
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- non-athletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- non-atrophic — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- non-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
- non-cohesion — the act or state of cohering, uniting, or sticking together.
- non-cohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
- non-hispanic — Spanish.
- non-matching — not matching: a nonmatching set of furniture.
- non-strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- nonalcoholic — not being or containing alcohol: nonalcoholic beverages.
- nonarchitect — a person or builder who is not an architect
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonpsychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nontechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- normothermic — (medicine) Having a normal body temperature.
- north africa — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
- north-facing — facing towards the north
- nothing much — not a lot
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleophilic — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nympholeptic — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- nymphomaniac — a woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire.
- oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- onychophagia — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- opisthotonic — of or relating to opisthotonos
- orchestrions — Plural form of orchestrion.
- orchidomania — an obsession with or passion for orchids
- ornithomancy — Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- orthodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
- orthogenetic — pertaining to or exhibiting orthogenesis.
- orthognathic — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- other income — Other income is income that does not come from a company's main business, such as interest.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.