12-letter words containing a, c, e, p, h
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- encephalitic — Of or pertaining to encephalitis.
- encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- epencephalon — the cerebellum and pons Varolii
- epigraphical — Epigraphic.
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escape hatch — door to an emergency exit
- escape shaft — a shaft in a mine through which miners can escape if the regular shaft is blocked
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- extrahepatic — Originating or occurring outside the liver.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- geographical — of or relating to geography.
- grace hopper — (person) US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- haemophiliac — A person with haemophilia.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- happenchance — happenstance.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- happy camper — Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
- happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hepatoxicity — Toxicity that affects the liver.
- hexadecapole — (physics) Anything having sixteen poles or electrodes, or a combination of four quadrupoles.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed