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12-letter words containing e, l, h, i

  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
  • polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
  • polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
  • polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
  • polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
  • porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • pre-hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
  • psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
  • pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • pyrophyllite — Mineralogy. a phyllosilicate, AlSi 2 O 5 (OH), usually having a white or greenish color, and occurring in either foliated or compact masses, the latter variety being used like soapstone.
  • qualmishness — The quality of being qualmish.
  • quarterlight — A small, pivoted, normally triangular, car window that acts as a vent.
  • re-establish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • reachability — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • refreshingly — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
  • rehabilitant — a person who is undergoing rehabilitation, especially for a physical disability.
  • rehabilitate — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • relinquished — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • relinquisher — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • replenishing — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
  • rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
  • rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
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