12-letter words containing h, e, l, m, i, n
- little minch — a sea channel between Isle of Skye and the central Outer Hebrides Islands, Scotland, connecting the Minch, or North Minch (N), with the Sea of the Hebrides. 14 to 20 miles (23 to 32 km) wide.
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
- manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
- mechanically — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- mechlin lace — a fine bobbin lace with raised cord, originally made in Mechlin.
- melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- men-children — plural of man-child.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- millihenries — Plural form of millihenry.
- milne method — a numerical method, involving Simpson's rule, for solving a linear differential equation.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- 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
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nomothetical — Nomothetic.
- nympholeptic — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- phaeomelanin — a variety of melanin that gives rise to a red-coloured pigment
- phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- qualmishness — The quality of being qualmish.
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
- 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.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.