12-letter words containing h, e, d, l
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- paddle wheel — a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.
- paddle-wheel — a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.
- paedophiliac — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- philadelphia — a city in SE Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River: Declaration of Independence signed here July 4, 1776.
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- philodendron — a tropical American climbing plant belonging to the genus Philodendron, of the arum family, usually having smooth, shiny, evergreen leaves, often used as an ornamental houseplant.
- philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
- place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
- 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
- polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
- porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prescheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
- puzzleheaded — having, deriving from, or characterized by confused thoughts or ideas.
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- recordholder — a person or thing recognized for the accomplishment of a feat to a better or greater degree than any other.
- rehydratable — capable of being rehydrated
- relinquished — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- rhode island — US state
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- road haulier — a person who owns or works for a road haulage company; a trucker
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- saddle horse — a horse bred, trained, or used for riding.
- saddle shoes — shoes with a midsection (where the laces are) that is darker in colour, usually black, to the rest of the shoe, which is usually white
- salad shaker — a portable plastic container which is used for storing salad and which has a separate compartment for salad dressing. The dressing is put on the salad just before it is eaten and the container can then be shaken to spread the salad dressing evenly.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schindylesis — an articulation or fibrous joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals