12-letter words containing h, i, d, e, n, t
- in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- indo-hittite — a language family in which Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-European are considered coordinate. Compare Hittite (def 2).
- indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
- indricothere — a long-necked, long-legged, fossil mammal, Indricotherium transouralicum, related to the rhinoceros and existing 10 to 30 million years ago, possibly the largest and heaviest land mammal.
- inside right — (esp formerly) a player having mainly midfield and attacking roles
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- into the red — into debt or an unprofitable financial condition
- iron-hearted — cruel; heartless; unfeeling.
- kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
- kind hearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
- kind-hearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- milne method — a numerical method, involving Simpson's rule, for solving a linear differential equation.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
- nightdresses — Plural form of nightdress.
- ninety-third — next after the ninety-second; being the ordinal number for 93.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- phytonadione — vitamin K1.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- pyritohedron — a crystal form of 12 pentagonal faces.
- radiant heat — heat energy transmitted by electromagnetic waves in contrast to heat transmitted by conduction or convection.
- rechristened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
- residentship — a person who resides in a place.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.