12-letter words containing t, h, e, c, n, o
- heliocentric — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- henotheistic — Relating to henotheism.
- heroic tenor — a tenor with a dramatic voice
- 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
- heterochrony — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high concept — a simple and often striking idea or premise, as of a story or film, that lends itself to easy promotion and marketing.
- high-context — preferring to communicate in person, rather than by electronic methods such as email
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- inchoateness — The quality of being inchoate.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- incoherently — without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence.
- indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
- indricothere — a long-necked, long-legged, fossil mammal, Indricotherium transouralicum, related to the rhinoceros and existing 10 to 30 million years ago, possibly the largest and heaviest land mammal.
- inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- luncheonette — a small restaurant or lunchroom where light meals are served.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- 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.
- mnemotechnic — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monotheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to monotheism, the doctrine that there is only one God: a monotheistic religion.
- monothematic — having a single theme.
- monotrichate — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- 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.