12-letter words containing n, t, h
- chronologist — a person versed in chronology.
- chronometers — Plural form of chronometer.
- chronometric — of a chronometer or chronometry
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- chronotropic — affecting the rate or timing of a physiologic process, as the heart rate.
- chthonophagy — (disease) Alternative form of chthonophagia.
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- churchianity — loyalty to the church rather than Christianity
- chymotrypsin — a powerful proteolytic enzyme secreted from the pancreas in the form of chymotrypsinogen, being converted to the active form by trypsin
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
- clothes-line — a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts, or buildings, on which clean laundry is hung to dry.
- clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
- clotheslines — Plural form of clothesline.
- cockfighting — The sport (illegal in certain countries) of setting two cocks to fight each other. Fighting cocks often have had their legs fitted with metal spurs.
- cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- codling moth — a tortricid moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, the larvae of which are a pest of apples
- coelacanthic — of or relating to the coelacanth
- coenesthesia — general awareness of one's own body
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- come to hand — to become available; be received
- common touch — the ability to communicate with, appeal to, or inspire ordinary 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
- conchologist — One who collects shells, especially for the purpose of scientific study.
- constraineth — Archaic third-person singular form of constrain.
- contact high — a state of altered consciousness caused by inhaling the drugs other people are smoking
- copyrighting — Present participle of copyright.
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- cotton mouth — a venomous snake, Agkistrodon (Ancistrodon) piscivorus, of swamps in southeastern U.S., that grows to about 4 feet (1.2 meters).
- cottonmouths — Plural form of cottonmouth.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- countercharm — an object or action that is capable of destroying a magical charm
- countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
- counterearth — (in Pythagorean astronomy) a planet, out of sight from our part of the earth, whose shadow upon the sun and moon, cast by a central fire that is also out of sight, causes the eclipses.
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- countermarch — to march or cause to march back along the same route
- counterpunch — to punch an attacking opponent; return an attack
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
- 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.