12-letter words containing e, n, s, h, r
- kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
- khornerstone — A multipurpose benchmark from Workstation Labs used in various periodicals. The source is not free. Results are published in "UNIX Review".
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- lincolnshire — a county in E England. 2272 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km).
- lion's share — the largest part or share, especially a disproportionate portion: The eldest son received the lion's share of the estate.
- listenership — the people or number of people who listen to a radio station, record, type of music, etc.: The station has a listenership of 200,000.
- liverishness — Quality of being liverish.
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metatherians — Plural form of metatherian.
- millihenries — Plural form of millihenry.
- miner's inch — a unit of measure of water flow, varying with locality but often a flow equaling 1.5 cu. ft. (0.04 m 3) per minute.
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- mother-seton — Saint Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) ("Mother Seton") 1774–1821, U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- n hemisphere — that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- neanderthals — Plural form of neanderthal.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necrophorous — denoting animals, such as certain beetles, that carry away the bodies of dead animals
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- nephroptosis — An abnormal condition in which the kidney drops down into the pelvis when the patient stands up.
- nephrostomes — Plural form of nephrostome.
- nephrotomies — Plural form of nephrotomy.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.