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12-letter words containing a, n, i, h, l, t

  • phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
  • philanthropy — altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • rehabilitant — a person who is undergoing rehabilitation, especially for a physical disability.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • saint helena — Saint, c247–c330, mother of Constantine I.
  • saint helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
  • saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
  • saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • sandy blight — trachoma.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • 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.
  • smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • technicality — technical character.
  • technicalize — to make technical
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
  • thank kindly — to thank heartily
  • the alliance — the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
  • the antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean
  • the galilean — an epithet of Jesus Christ
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
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