12-letter words containing s, c, h, o, n
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- 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 racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse's neck — a drink of whiskey and ginger ale, served with ice and garnished with a spiral of lemon peel on the rim of the glass.
- host country — nation staging an international event
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- ichnospecies — (paleontology) Any species known only from trace fossils, such as footprints, coprolites or nests.
- iconomachist — a person who campaigns against the use of icons in religious worship
- iconophilism — a taste for pictures and symbols
- iconophilist — a person with a taste for pictures and symbols
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- inchoateness — The quality of being inchoate.
- incoherences — Plural form of incoherence.
- inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- johnson city — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- latin school — a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.
- lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
- lincolnshire — a county in E England. 2272 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km).
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- machinations — an act or instance of machinating.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- macintosh ii — (computer) (Mac II) A version of Apple's Macintosh personal computer, released in March 1987, using the Motorola 68020 CPU, which runs at a higher clock rate than the Motorola 68000 used in the original Mac. The Mac II has a full 32-bit data bus instead of a 16-bit bus. Mac II models have built-in 40 to 160 megabyte hard disks and can take up to eight megabytes of RAM (and more as denser memory chips arive). The Mac II was the first Macintosh to provide a colour graphics option, with up to 256 colours on screen at a 640x480 resolution. Mac II models are designed for expandability with three (Macintosh IIcx) or six (II & IIx) built-in NuBus expansion slots for additional peripheral and coprocessor boards.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
- microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- monk's cloth — a heavy cotton fabric in a basket weave, used for curtains, bedspreads, etc.
- monochromats — Plural form of monochromat.
- monochromist — An artist working in the monochromatic style.
- monophysitic — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monorchidism — a prenatal or postnatal condition in which one testis is absent or has not descended into the scrotum.
- monostichous — (of parts) forming one row