12-letter words containing p, a, t, c, h, e
- chapter ring — a ringlike band on the dial of a clock that bears the numerals or other symbols of the hours.
- chapter room — a room for the use of the chapter of a religious institution
- chapter stop — any of several markers placed at intervals on a DVD film, enabling the viewer to find and select particular scenes
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
- chart topper — a singer, band or video that comes top in the charts
- charterparty — an agreement for the hire of all or part of a ship for a specified voyage or period of time
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chemotherapy — Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
- chi particle — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
- clutch plate — a plate in a vehicle's clutch that connects to the transmission
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- compost heap — an outdoor pile of compostabale material that degrades into compost
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- encephalitic — Of or pertaining to encephalitis.
- encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escape hatch — door to an emergency exit
- escape shaft — a shaft in a mine through which miners can escape if the regular shaft is blocked
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- extrahepatic — Originating or occurring outside the liver.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.