12-letter words containing e, n, l, o
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- henle's loop — loop of Henle.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hexaflexagon — A hexagonal flexagon.
- hexasiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any siloxane having six -Si-O- groups.
- hispaniolize — to make someone Spanish in their cultural attitudes, values, speech, etc
- hispanophile — an admirer of Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- hog's fennel — any of several Eurasian umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Peucedanum, esp P. officinale, having clusters of small whitish flowers
- hohenzollern — a member of the royal family that ruled in Romania from 1866 to 1947, in Prussia from 1701 to 1918, and in the German Empire from 1871 to 1918.
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- hollow newel — a narrow wellhole in a winding staircase.
- holocephalan — (zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; the chimeras.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homelessness — without a home: a homeless child.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- hopelessness — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- hornlessness — Absence of horns.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horse nettle — a large, prickly North American weed, Solanum carolinense, of the nightshade family, having violet to white flowers in a few clusters.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hydrocyclone — A hydrocyclone is a vessel used for separating two liquids with different densities, by the circular movement of fluid.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- idealisation — Alternative spelling of idealization.
- idealization — the act or process of idealizing something.
- il penseroso — a poem (1632) by John Milton.
- ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- illaqueation — the act of ensnaring
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- illusoriness — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.