12-letter words containing s, c, h, n
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- 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.
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- on the cards — likely
- on the cross — diagonally
- on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- on-the-scene — being at the very place of occurrence: an on-the-scene newscast.
- opisthotonic — of or relating to opisthotonos
- orchestrions — Plural form of orchestrion.
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocenters — Plural form of orthocenter.
- 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.
- 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.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- phantasmatic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
- phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
- phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- physiognomic — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
- pinchcommons — a person who is frugal with food
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- posthypnotic — of or relating to the period after hypnosis.
- prenticeship — an apprenticeship
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- psychognosis — the use of hypnosis to study mental phenomena
- psychonomics — the study of the individual mind in relation to its environment
- psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- quenchlessly — without quenching
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- rechristened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of