12-letter words containing chi
- overachieved — Simple past tense and past participle of overachieve.
- overachiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- parochialize — to make parochial.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
- pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
- pitch chisel — a broad-edged chisel for cutting plane surfaces on stones.
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- 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.
- pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
- psychomachia — conflict of the soul
- punching bag — an inflated or stuffed bag, usually suspended, punched with the fists as an exercise.
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- rachischisis — A developmental birth defect in which the neural tube fails to close completely, leading to motor and sensory deficits, chronic infections, and disturbances in bladder function.
- radical chic — the patronage of extremists or left-wing radicals by rich or famous people, as through invitations to social functions or public expressions of support.
- rat-catching — the job of destroying or driving away vermin, esp rats
- reaching jib — genoa.
- ring machine — a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.
- schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
- schindylesis — an articulation or fibrous joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
- schizocarpic — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
- schizophytic — of or relating to a schizophyte
- schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
- schizothymia — the condition of being schizoid or introverted. It encompasses elements of schizophrenia but does not involve the same depth of psychological disturbance
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- showy orchis — a wild orchid, Orchis spectabilis, of eastern North America, having a spike of showy flowers, each with purple, pink, or white sepals and petals united into a galea and a white lip.
- silicon chip — A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations.
- 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.
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- stoichiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the cellular components of animal tissues