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12-letter words that end in ch

  • picnic lunch — a meal that you take and eat outdoors
  • picot stitch — a stitch that produces picots, or loops, of thread that extend beneath a row of connecting or finishing stitches.
  • pirate perch — a purplish North American freshwater fish, Aphredoderus sayanus, the adult of which has the vent located in back of the lower jaw.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • purple beech — copper beech.
  • purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
  • purple patch — If someone, especially a sports player or team, goes through a purple patch, they are very successful or lucky for a period.
  • quartz watch — a watch that is operated by the vibrations of a quartz crystal controlled by a microcircuit
  • 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.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • return match — sport: second game between same teams
  • rostropovich — Mstislav (Leopoldovich) [mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich;; Russian mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] /ˈmɪs təˌslɑv ˌli əˈpoʊl də vɪtʃ;; Russian mstyɪˈslɑf lyɪ əˈpɔl də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).
  • router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
  • rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
  • safety catch — a device used in mechanisms, as for elevators, to prevent falling in the event of mechanical failure.
  • safety match — a match designed to ignite only when rubbed on a specially prepared surface.
  • safety touch — a two-point play
  • satin stitch — a long, straight embroidery stitch worked closely parallel in rows to form a pattern that resembles satin.
  • school lunch — School lunches are midday meals provided for children at a school.
  • 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.
  • second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shiner perch — a small, silvery perch, Cymatogaster aggregata, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America and bearing live young.
  • shostakovich — Dimitri Dimitrievich [dih-mee-tree di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian dmyee-tryee dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /dɪˈmi tri dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–75, Russian composer.
  • silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
  • silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
  • soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
  • sooty blotch — a disease, especially of apples and pears, characterized by sootlike spots or blotches on the fruit, caused by a fungus, Gloeodes pomigena.
  • spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
  • spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
  • state church — established church.
  • strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
  • studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
  • stump speech — a political campaign speech, especially one made on a campaign tour.
  • sucker punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • sunday punch — Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.
  • swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
  • timber hitch — a knot used for tying a rope round a spar, log, etc, for haulage
  • timber-hitch — to fasten by means of a timber hitch.
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • trimmer arch — an arch, usually of brick and in the form of half of a segmental arch, between a chimney and a header in a floor structure to support a hearth.
  • tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
  • union church — a congregation or denomination formed by the combination of two or more churches.
  • veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
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