12-letter words containing n, a, c, h, o, s
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- monochromats — Plural form of monochromat.
- nasal concha — turbinate (def 4).
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nicholas iii — (Giovanni Gaetani Orsini) died 1280, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1277–80.
- noam chomsky — (Avram) Noam [nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
- non-hispanic — Spanish.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonspherical — not spherical
- on the cards — likely
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- sancho panza — Sancho, Sancho Panza.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- 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-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- 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.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- 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.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- synchronical — happening at the same time