12-letter words containing r, h, e, y
- charity sale — a sale in aid of charity
- charterparty — an agreement for the hire of all or part of a ship for a specified voyage or period of time
- checkerberry — the fruit of any of various plants, esp the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
- chemosensory — sensitive to chemical stimuli, as the sensory nerve endings that mediate taste and smell.
- chemosurgery — a method of treating cancer involving the use of chemicals to destroy malignant tissue or skin
- chemotherapy — Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
- cherry birch — sweet birch.
- cherrystones — Plural form of cherrystone.
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- chimerically — In a chimerical manner.
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chip jewelry — (jargon) A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry."
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
- chlorophytes — Plural form of chlorophyte.
- cholerically — In a choleric manner.
- choreography — Choreography is the inventing of steps and movements for ballets and other dances.
- chrestomathy — a collection of literary passages, used in the study of language
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- chrysomelids — Plural form of chrysomelid.
- chrysophytes — Plural form of chrysophyte.
- city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cycle crunch — (jargon) A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
- decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
- deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- drapery shop — a shop selling fabrics and sewing materials
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
- dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.