12-letter words containing s, c, h, l, e
- french-style — French-cut.
- gesellschaft — an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
- helical scan — denoting a recording technique used with video tapes in which the recorded tracks on the tape are segments of a helix
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- help screens — computer instructions displayed on a visual display unit
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- homeschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of homeschool.
- homeschooler — One who homeschools a student (typically the parent).
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- horse-collar — (especially in baseball) a score of zero.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hysterically — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- irish gaelic — Irish (def 4).
- ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kletterschuh — a lightweight climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and Vibram (originally felt or cord) sole
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
- lead a chase — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.