12-letter words containing h, a, m, i
- amphotericin — an amphoteric antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus and used in the treatment of fungal infections.
- anachronisms — Plural form of anachronism.
- anamorphosis — an image or drawing distorted in such a way that it becomes recognizable only when viewed in a specified manner or through a special device
- anathematise — Alternative spelling of anathematize.
- anathematism — A formula of words used to cast anathema upon heretics etc.
- anathematize — to pronounce an anathema (upon a person, etc); curse
- anemone fish — any of various damselfishes of the genus Amphiprion, such as A. percula (clown anemone fish), that usually live closely associated with sea anemones
- anemophilous — (of flowering plants such as grasses) pollinated by the wind
- animal faith — nonrational belief in the existence of a fully knowable world outside the mind.
- anisomorphic — differing in the semantic scope of terms referring to the real world: for instance, English and Russian are anisomorphic with regard to colour terms, English treating light blue and navy blue as shades of one colour but Russian treating these two shades as unrelated
- anisothermal — (thermodynamics) Of or pertaining to a system that is not in thermal equilibrium, that does not have a single fixed temperature.
- antasthmatic — relieving the symptoms of asthma
- antebrachium — (anatomy) The forearm.
- anthelmintic — killing or ejecting intestinal worms
- antibrachium — (anatomy) alternative spelling of antebrachium.
- antihumanism — opposition to humanism
- antimonarchy — Opposing a monarchy.
- antirrhinums — Plural form of antirrhinum.
- antithrombin — a substance that counteracts the action of thrombin, preventing the formation of blood clots
- apochromatic — (of a lens) almost free from spherical and chromatic aberration
- apothegmatic — Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
- archaic homo — collectively, the very robust, regionally differentiated human populations that lived in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa from 35,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- archesporium — archespore.
- archipallium — (anatomy) The oldest region of the brain's pallium, often considered contiguous with the olfactory cortex, but varying among species. In humans, the archipallium makes up the hippocampus.
- archiphoneme — an abstract linguistic unit representing two or more phonemes when the distinction between these has been neutralized: conventionally shown by a capital letter within slashes, as /T/ for /t/ and /d/ in German Rat and Rad
- arithmetical — Arithmetical calculations, processes, or skills involve the addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division of numbers.
- arithmomania — an obsessive desire to count objects, or a fixation with numbers and calculations
- arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
- arsphenamine — a drug containing arsenic, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and related infections
- arthrotomies — Plural form of arthrotomy.
- astonishment — Astonishment is a feeling of great surprise.
- astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
- asynchronism — a lack of synchronism; occurrence at different times
- atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
- atmospherium — an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.
- automorphism — the practice of seeing others as having the same characteristics as oneself
- autorhythmic — That generates its own rhythm.
- axiom schema — (logic) A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, containing one or more. These metasyntactic variables (or "schematic variables") that stand for terms or subformulae. An example is the Axiom of Comprehension.
- azithromycin — A macrolide antibiotic derived from erythromycin.
- bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
- bathmophobia — The fear of stairs and slopes.
- bathochromic — denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound
- beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
- beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
- behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
- bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
- beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
- beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
- bhakti-marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)