12-letter words containing d, i, s, h, o, n
- hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- in-bond shop — a duty-free shop
- jodo shinshu — the largest sect of Jodo, stressing simple trust rather than ritual as the means to salvation.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- 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.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- non-shedding — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- north island — the northernmost principal island of New Zealand. 44,281 sq. mi. (114,690 sq. km).
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- on shipboard — on board a ship
- on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
- orthodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
- orthodontist — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
- 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.
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- rhode island — US state
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.