12-letter words containing h, a, n, p
- sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- tape machine — a tape recorder.
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
- the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
- the pentagon — a five-sided building in Arlington, Va., in which the main offices of the U.S. Department of Defense are located; hence, the U.S. military establishment
- the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
- theatrophone — a late 19th century service that allowed subscribers to listen to concerts or plays through the telephone
- thinking cap — a state of mind marked by reflection or concentration: If we put on our thinking caps, we may come up with the answer.
- thomas paine — Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- tramping hut — a hut in the bush for the use of trampers
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- trephination — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- trichopteran — trichopterous.
- triumphantly — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
- unalphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
- unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- unemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unhyphenated — without a hyphen
- unperishable — imperishable
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unpunishable — not able to be punished
- unpunishably — in an unpunishable manner
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals
- yachting cap — a cap with a round flat top and a visor
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.