12-letter words containing h, i, p, m, e, a
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- gamesmanship — the use of methods, especially in a sports contest, that are dubious or seemingly improper but not strictly illegal.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- haemophiliac — A person with haemophilia.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
- hemapheresis — apheresis.
- hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- homeopathist — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- 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.
- homoeopathic — Alternative spelling of homeopathic.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperlipemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hyperthermia — Pathology. abnormally high fever.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hypocalcemia — an abnormally small amount of calcium in the blood.
- hypocalcemic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hypocalcemia.
- hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypokalaemia — Alternative form of hypokalemia.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hypovolaemia — Alternative form of hypovolemia.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- 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.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator