12-letter words containing h, e, y, n
- diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
- duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- echogenicity — (medical) The ability to create an echo that can be detected in an ultrasound examination.
- eighteenthly — in the eighteenth place
- eighty-seven — a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky
- empty-handed — carrying nothing
- enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
- enchantingly — In an enchanting manner.
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- erythromycin — An antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It is similar in its effects to penicillin.
- erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- ethnohistory — The branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- ethoxyethane — (organic compound) The systematic name for diethyl ether.
- ethylbenzene — A colorless, flammable liquid hydrocarbon, used in the manufacture of styrene.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- evenhandedly — In an evenhanded manner.
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- eye-catching — Something that is eye-catching is very noticeable.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fisheye lens — a hemispherical plano-convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery.
- fly the nest — When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- french-style — French-cut.
- frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- gene therapy — the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.
- get anywhere — to be successful
- gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.