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12-letter words containing t, h, i, a, c

  • pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • pirate perch — a purplish North American freshwater fish, Aphredoderus sayanus, the adult of which has the vent located in back of the lower jaw.
  • pitch a tale — to tell a story, usually of a fantastic nature
  • 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.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • potichomania — the art or process of printing or using paint to decorate the inside of a glass vessel
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • pro-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
  • prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
  • psammophytic — relating to psammophytes
  • psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
  • psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
  • psychopathic — of, relating to, or affected with psychopathy.
  • quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • rabbit hutch — a cage, usually of wood and wire mesh, for keeping domestic or pet rabbits in
  • rabbit punch — a short, sharp blow to the nape of the neck or the lower part of the skull.
  • rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
  • racing yacht — a yacht used in sailing races
  • radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • rat-catching — the job of destroying or driving away vermin, esp rats
  • reachability — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
  • reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
  • rhythmically — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.
  • saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • 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).
  • satin stitch — a long, straight embroidery stitch worked closely parallel in rows to form a pattern that resembles satin.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
  • schizothymia — the condition of being schizoid or introverted. It encompasses elements of schizophrenia but does not involve the same depth of psychological disturbance
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • scratchpad i — (language)   A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
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