12-letter words containing s, h, e, c
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesolecithal — centrolecithal.
- 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.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- miner's inch — a unit of measure of water flow, varying with locality but often a flow equaling 1.5 cu. ft. (0.04 m 3) per minute.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- mischievious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mismatchment — an inappropriate match
- miss the cut — to achieve a greater score after the first two rounds of a strokeplay tournament than that required to play in the remaining two rounds
- moeso-gothic — of the Moeso-Goths, their extinct East Germanic language, or their culture
- monotheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to monotheism, the doctrine that there is only one God: a monotheistic religion.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necrophorous — denoting animals, such as certain beetles, that carry away the bodies of dead animals
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- neurochemist — A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- nietzscheism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- non-cohesion — the act or state of cohering, uniting, or sticking together.
- non-cohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- occurs check — (programming) A feature of some implementations of unification which causes unification of a logic variable V and a structure S to fail if S contains V. Binding a variable to a structure containing that variable results in a cyclic structure which may subsequently cause unification to loop forever. Some implementations use extra pointer comparisons to avoid this. Most implementations of Prolog do not perform the occurs check for reasons of efficiency. Without occurs check the complexity of unification is O(min(size(term1), size(term2))) with occurs check it's O(max(size(term1), size(term2))) In theorem proving unification without the occurs check can lead to unsound inference. For example, in Prolog it is quite valid to write X = f(X). which will succeed, binding X to a cyclic structure. Clearly however, if f is taken to stand for a function rather than a constructor, then the above equality is only valid if f is the identity function. Weijland calls unification without occur check, "complete unification". The reference below describes a complete unification algorithm in terms of Colmerauer's consistency algorithm.
- ochlocracies — Plural form of ochlocracy.
- ochroleucous — having an off-white colour or a white colour tinted with yellow
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- 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.