12-letter words containing h, i, d, a, l
- 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.
- phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- 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.
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- radical chic — the patronage of extremists or left-wing radicals by rich or famous people, as through invitations to social functions or public expressions of support.
- rhode island — US state
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- 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.
- saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- 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.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
- thank kindly — to thank heartily
- that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
- the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
- the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
- the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
- thioaldehyde — any of a class of compounds formed by the action of hydrogen sulfide on aldehydes, and regarded as aldehydes with the oxygen replaced by sulfur.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- valdai hills — a region of hills and plateaus in NW Russia, between Moscow and St Petersburg. Greatest height: 346 m (1135 ft)
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- zuid-holland — South Holland