12-letter words containing s, h, o, r, t, c
- electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
- erythrocytes — Plural form of erythrocyte.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fourth-class — of, relating to, or designated as a class next below third, as for mailing, shipping, etc.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- from scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- 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.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- histrionical — (British) Alternative form of histrionic.
- holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
- home stretch — final stages: of race or journey
- homescreetch — a mistle thrush
- homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
- horse-doctor — an informal word for a vet who specializes in treating horses
- host country — nation staging an international event
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
- hypocoristic — endearing, as a pet name, diminutive, or euphemism.
- hysterectomy — excision of the uterus.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- hysteroscopy — (medicine) The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- ichthyosaurs — Plural form of ichthyosaur.
- ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
- isochromatic — Optics. having the same color or tint.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- 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.
- 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.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.