12-letter words containing t, h, e, c, a, n
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- needle match — a bitterly fought contest between two competitors or teams who bear each other a grudge
- neo-catholic — of or relating to those Anglicans who avowedly prefer the doctrines, rituals, etc., of the Roman Catholic Church to those of the Anglican communion.
- neoanthropic — neanthropic.
- nephropathic — characterized by or relating to nephropathy
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nomothetical — Nomothetic.
- non-athletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- nonarchitect — a person or builder who is not an architect
- noncharacter — someone who is not a character
- nontechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- not a chance — no possibility
- nychthemeral — relating to a nychthemeron or to the changes or differences, specifically those relating to day and night, that occur within this span
- on the cadge — engaged in cadging
- on the cards — likely
- on the cheap — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- on the latch — fastened by the latch (sense 1) but not locked or bolted
- on the march — If a group of soldiers are on the march, they are marching somewhere.
- on the watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
- pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
- pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- pitch accent — (in languages such as Ancient Greek or modern Swedish) an accent in which emphatic syllables are pronounced on a higher musical pitch relative to other syllables
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- reattachment — connecting or fastening again
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- sanity check — (programming) 1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.