12-letter words containing h, i, m, e, s
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- histochemist — someone who specializes in histochemistry
- holmes light — a canister, attached to a life buoy or float, containing calcium carbonate and calcium phosphide, which ignite spontaneously on contact with the water, emitting conspicuous fire and smoke.
- home mission — a religious mission operating within the country or territories of the supporting church.
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homeopathist — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homo sapiens — (italics) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- homoeostasis — Alternative spelling of homeostasis.
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- homoiotherms — Plural form of homoiotherm.
- horse marine — (formerly) a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman doing duty on shipboard.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- impoverisher — Someone who impoverishes.
- impoverishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impoverish.
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
- intermeshing — That mesh between one another.
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
- mechanicians — Plural form of mechanician.