12-letter words containing h, i, l
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- milk thistle — flowering plant
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- millihenries — Plural form of millihenry.
- milne method — a numerical method, involving Simpson's rule, for solving a linear differential equation.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- mohammed ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monothalamic — having a sole cavity or compartment
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- moonlighting — the light of the moon.
- moorish idol — a black, white, and yellow fish, Zanclus cornutus (or canescens), inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans, having a long snout and an elongated dorsal fin.
- morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- muhammad ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.
- multipathing — (computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- muralitharan — Muttiah (məˈtaɪə). born 1972, Sri Lankan cricketer: a spin bowler, he played in 133 test matches and took a world-record 800 wickets
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- musk thistle — a composite plant, Carduus nutans, having heads of nodding, rose-purple flowers, introduced into the U.S. from Eurasia.
- myrmecophile — An invertebrate or plant that has a symbiotic relationship with ants, such as being tended and protected by ants or living inside an ants' nest.
- myrmecophily — symbiosis with ants
- mythological — of or relating to mythology.
- mythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.
- mythologizer — One who, or that which, mythologizes.
- mythologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythologize.
- nail varnish — nail polish.
- necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- needlefishes — Plural form of needlefish.
- neo-catholic — of or relating to those Anglicans who avowedly prefer the doctrines, rituals, etc., of the Roman Catholic Church to those of the Anglican communion.
- nephanalysis — a map or chart showing the distribution of types and amounts of clouds and precipitation at a given time.
- nephelinitic — containing or resembling nephelinite, pertaining to nephelinite
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.