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

  • psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
  • 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.
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • 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.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
  • spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
  • sphericality — the state of being a sphere
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • sphragistics — the scientific study of seals or signet rings.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
  • tablet chair — a chair with one arm extending and expanding into a writing surface.
  • tachyphrasia — a communication disorder involving rapid, unintelligible speech
  • tactile hair — any highly sensitive hair of an animal, as the whiskers of a cat or hairs on a hedgehog's snout.
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
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