12-letter words containing h, e, d, l
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- little rhody — Rhode Island (used as a nickname).
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- loggerheaded — Dull; stupid.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- loud-mouthed — If you describe someone as loud-mouthed, you are critical of them because they talk a lot, especially in an unpleasant, offensive, or stupid way.
- love handles — fat midriff
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- medal-holder — a person who has won a medal
- men-children — plural of man-child.
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- middle dutch — the Dutch language of the period c1100–c1500. Abbreviation: MD.
- middle eight — the third contrasting eight-bar section of a 32-bar pop song
- middle irish — the Irish language of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- middle white — a breed of medium-sized white pig commonly kept for pork and bacon, and for fattening
- middle youth — the period of life between about 30 and 50
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- milne method — a numerical method, involving Simpson's rule, for solving a linear differential equation.
- model theory — the branch of logic that deals with the properties of models; the semantic study of formal systems
- mohammed ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- molded depth — the depth of a vessel at the broadest transverse section from the top of the keel to the upper side of the main deck beam at the side.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- muddleheaded — confused in one's thinking; blundering: a muddleheaded assertion.
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- mythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.
- neanderthals — Plural form of neanderthal.
- needle match — a bitterly fought contest between two competitors or teams who bear each other a grudge
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- needlefishes — Plural form of needlefish.
- nether world — the infernal regions; hell.
- netherlander — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- 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.
- octahedrally — in an octahedral manner
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.