12-letter words containing h, i, l, a, r, o
- philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
- pro-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
- prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
- prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
- rhinorrhoeal — of or relating to rhinorrhoea
- rhode island — US state
- road haulier — a person who owns or works for a road haulage company; a trucker
- roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
- saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
- 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.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- synchronical — happening at the same time
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
- thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
- thoracically — by way of the thorax; in the thorax
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
- unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
- unheroically — in an unheroic manner
- unhistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
- urolithiasis — a diseased condition marked by the formation of stones in the urinary tract.