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12-letter words containing h, e, i, s, t

  • coquettishly — (of a woman) characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.
  • cosmochemist — a student of cosmochemistry
  • costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
  • crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
  • death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
  • dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
  • dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
  • diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
  • diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
  • diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
  • directorship — a person or thing that directs.
  • disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
  • disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
  • disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
  • discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
  • disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disenchanter — One who disenchants.
  • disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • dish antenna — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
  • dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
  • dishonesties — Plural form of dishonesty.
  • disinherited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinherit.
  • disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • dissenterish — having a part of the character or quality of a dissenter
  • ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
  • dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
  • dysaesthesia — a disagreeable sensation such as burning or itching arising from impairment of the nervous system
  • dysaesthetic — relating to or suffering from dysaesthesia
  • dysesthesias — Plural form of dysesthesia.
  • dysphemistic — Of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism.
  • e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
  • earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
  • earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
  • east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
  • east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
  • eighty-seven — a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky
  • elephantitis — (US) misconstruction of elephantiasis.
  • encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
  • enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
  • enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
  • enshrinement — (uncountable) The state of being enshrined.
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