12-letter words containing t, h, e, c, o, n
- photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- 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.
- phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
- 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.
- preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second sheet — a sheet of blank stationery, used in a letter as the second and following pages to a sheet having a letterhead.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
- 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.
- short notice — little warning
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
- tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
- teaching job — a position as a teacher
- technetronic — pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications: a technetronic era.
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
- technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
- technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- technologize — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
- technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.