12-letter words containing a, t, n, s, o
- histrionical — (British) Alternative form of histrionic.
- hofmannsthal — Hugo von [hoo-goh fuh n] /ˈhu goʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1874–1929, Austrian poet, playwright, and librettist.
- hohenstaufen — a member of the royal family that ruled in Germany from 1138 to 1208 and from 1215 to 1254, and in Sicily from 1194 to 1266.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hootenannies — Plural form of hootenanny.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
- hypoplastron — the third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- iconoclastic — attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions, etc., as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity: an iconoclastic architect whose buildings are like monumental sculptures.
- iconomachist — a person who campaigns against the use of icons in religious worship
- idealisation — Alternative spelling of idealization.
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- immiseration — to make miserable.
- immunisation — (British, immunology) alternative spelling of immunization.
- impassionate — filled with passion; impassioned.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impersonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impersonate.
- impersonator — a person who pretends to be another.
- implications — something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: to resent an implication of dishonesty.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- importations — Plural form of importation.
- impositional — Of or relating to imposition; intrusive.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- in altissimo — in the octave commencing an octave above the treble clef
- in isolation — If something is considered in isolation from other things that it is connected with, it is considered separately, and those other things are not considered.
- in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- in statu quo — in the state in which (anything was or is).
- incantations — Plural form of incantation.
- incarnations — Plural form of incarnation.
- incautiously — In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
- inchoateness — The quality of being inchoate.