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12-letter words containing h, e, m, i

  • atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
  • atmospherium — an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.
  • axiom schema — (logic)   A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, containing one or more. These metasyntactic variables (or "schematic variables") that stand for terms or subformulae. An example is the Axiom of Comprehension.
  • bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
  • beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
  • beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
  • beehive tomb — a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside.
  • behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
  • beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
  • beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
  • bimorph cell — a piezoelectric transducer consisting of two crystals cemented together, used in microphones, headphones, loudspeakers, etc. to convert vibrations into a voltage output or to convert a signal voltage into vibrations that can produce audible sounds
  • biochemistry — Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that happen in living things.
  • biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
  • birth mother — the woman who gives birth to a child, regardless of whether she is the genetic mother or subsequently brings up the child
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blimpishness — actions or behaviour akin to those of the fictional character of Colonel Blimp, or the quality of resembling this character
  • bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
  • brine shrimp — any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • camel's hair — the hair of the camel
  • camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • cash machine — ATM1
  • cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • chair warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
  • chair-warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
  • chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
  • chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
  • chance music — aleatory music.
  • characterism — the description of character
  • charismatize — to impress or influence by charisma.
  • charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
  • chastisement — Chastisement is the same as punishment.
  • chastizement — Alternative form of chastisement.
  • chemiosmosis — the mechanism by which the synthesis and utilization of the biochemical energy source ATP is regulated: the energy generated by oxidative phosphorylation generates a proton gradient across the membrane of the mitochondrion that drives the enzymic resynthesis of ATP
  • chemiosmotic — relating to the process of chemiosmosis
  • chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
  • chemotrophic — any organism that oxidizes inorganic or organic compounds as its principal energy source.
  • chemotropism — the growth response of an organism, esp a plant, to a chemical stimulus
  • child minder — a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working
  • child-minder — a baby-sitter.
  • chimerically — In a chimerical manner.
  • chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chimneypiece — A chimneypiece is the same as a mantlepiece.
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