12-letter words containing d, h, i, m, s
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hit and miss — unpredictable, unreliable
- hit-and-miss — sometimes successful or rewarding and sometimes not.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- 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.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hydrargyrism — mercurialism.
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- metathesized — Simple past tense and past participle of metathesize.
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- middle irish — the Irish language of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- mithridatism — the production of immunity against the action of a poison by taking the poison in gradually increased doses.
- monorchidism — a prenatal or postnatal condition in which one testis is absent or has not descended into the scrotum.
- month's mind — a Requiem Mass said on the thirtieth day after a person's death or burial.
- moorish idol — a black, white, and yellow fish, Zanclus cornutus (or canescens), inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans, having a long snout and an elongated dorsal fin.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- opisthodomos — Also called posticum. a small room in the cella of a classical temple, as for a treasury.
- orthodromics — the act or art of sailing on a great circle
- pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
- phosphamidon — a systemic and contact insecticide, C 1 0 H 1 9 ClNO 5 P, used against beetles, aphids, mites, and other crop pests.
- postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- rubbish dump — a place or area where waste materials are dumped
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield