12-letter words containing a, m, p
- hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
- happy camper — Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- health stamp — a postage stamp with a surcharge that is used to support a health camp
- helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
- hemapheresis — apheresis.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- hippopotamic — like, of, or relating to a hippopotamus
- hippopotamus — a large herbivorous mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, having a thick hairless body, short legs, and a large head and muzzle, found in and near the rivers, lakes, etc., of Africa, and able to remain under water for a considerable time.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- holiday camp — In Britain, a holiday camp is a place which provides holiday accommodation and entertainment for large numbers of people.
- homeopathist — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
- homo sapiens — (italics) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
- homoeopathic — Alternative spelling of homeopathic.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- hopper frame — a window frame having one or more upper sashes hinged at the bottoms and opening inward.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- huntsmanship — The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperlipemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypermarkets — Plural form of hypermarket.
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hyperosmolar — Of, pertaining to, or as a result of hyperosmolarity.
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hyperthermal — Also, thermic. of, relating to, or caused by heat or temperature: thermal capacity.
- hyperthermia — Pathology. abnormally high fever.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hypocalcemia — an abnormally small amount of calcium in the blood.
- hypocalcemic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hypocalcemia.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.