12-letter words containing a, n, p, h
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
- halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
- hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hanging pawn — one of two or more adjacent pawns on central half-open files with no pawns of the same colour on the files immediately to left and right of them
- hanging post — a post from which a door, gate, etc., is hung.
- hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- happenchance — happenstance.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- hasenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
- helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hepatization — the transformation of tissue into a liver-like substance, esp of the lungs in pneumonia
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- hierophanies — Plural form of hierophany.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- hispaniolize — to make someone Spanish in their cultural attitudes, values, speech, etc
- hispanophile — an admirer of Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- hispanophobe — a person who dislikes Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- holocephalan — (zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; the chimeras.
- holoplankton — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- 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.