12-letter words containing h, e, d, l, s
- homeschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of homeschool.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horse-dealer — a person who buys and sells horses as a profession
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- householders — Plural form of householder.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- lead a chase — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- love handles — fat midriff
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- middle irish — the Irish language of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- neanderthals — Plural form of neanderthal.
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- needlefishes — Plural form of needlefish.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.