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12-letter words containing d, o, n, a, h

  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
  • outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
  • parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
  • parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
  • pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
  • phosphamidon — a systemic and contact insecticide, C 1 0 H 1 9 ClNO 5 P, used against beetles, aphids, mites, and other crop pests.
  • photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • phytonadione — vitamin K1.
  • pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
  • quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
  • quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
  • radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
  • ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
  • rhode island — US state
  • rhodomontade — rodomontade
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
  • 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.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • 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).
  • stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
  • stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thionic acid — any of the five acids of sulfur of the type H 2 S n O 6 , where n is from two to six.
  • thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
  • thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
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