12-letter words containing t, r, i, s, c, h
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
- 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.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- monochromist — An artist working in the monochromatic style.
- monostrophic — consisting of stanzas or strophes all having the same metrical structure.
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- neurochemist — A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- non-strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- octastrophic — having or containing eight verses or strophes
- orchestrions — Plural form of orchestrion.
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthoclastic — (of a crystal) having cleavages at right angles to each other.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- orthodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
- orthodromics — the act or art of sailing on a great circle
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthosilicic — (chemistry) Of, relating to or derived from orthosilicic acid.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- paraesthetic — paresthesia.
- paraphrastic — having the nature of a paraphrase.
- parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- periphrastic — circumlocutory; roundabout.
- peristrephic — that turns around or revolves
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
- petrophysics — the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- picture show — motion picture.
- polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- prenticeship — an apprenticeship
- prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet