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12-letter words containing e, l, p, h, a, n

  • inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • kaleidophone — an instrument, invented by Professor Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), consisting of a light on a vibrating rod with a reflecting knob for exhibiting the effect of sound waves
  • lamellaphone — Alt form lamellophone.
  • lamellophone — (musical instruments) Any of several musical instruments in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellaa attached to a sounding board.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • laryngophone — A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
  • linear graph — graph (def 2b).
  • linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
  • lisp machine — 1.   (architecture)   Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2.   (hardware, operating system)   A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
  • lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
  • metallophone — any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard.
  • monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
  • monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
  • monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
  • necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
  • needle-sharp — very sharp
  • neencephalon — the more recent part of the brain in the evolutionary development of animals, including the cerebral cortex and its related structures.
  • nephanalysis — a map or chart showing the distribution of types and amounts of clouds and precipitation at a given time.
  • nonspherical — not spherical
  • north platte — a river flowing from N Colorado through SE Wyoming and W Nebraska into the Platte. 618 miles (995 sq. km) long.
  • oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
  • on the panel — receiving sickness benefit, esp from the government
  • open channel — An open channel is a type of flow in which one surface is free (= not restricted by anything).
  • open slather — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • panchen lama — Tashi Lama.
  • panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
  • panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
  • paranthelion — a bright spot in the sky caused by refraction and occurring at an angular distance from the sun of between 90° and 140°
  • pathlessness — the state of being pathless
  • pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • penalty shot — a free shot at the goal defended only by the goalkeeper, awarded to an offensive player for certain defensive violations.
  • pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
  • penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
  • phaeomelanin — a variety of melanin that gives rise to a red-coloured pigment
  • phalaenopsis — any of various epiphytic orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis, native to tropical Asia, having clusters of showy, variously colored flowers.
  • phenomenally — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
  • phenylalanin — an essential amino-acid present in most proteins
  • philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
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