12-letter words containing h, i, s, e
- lightweights — Plural form of lightweight.
- lincolnshire — a county in E England. 2272 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km).
- line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
- lion's share — the largest part or share, especially a disproportionate portion: The eldest son received the lion's share of the estate.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- 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.
- listenership — the people or number of people who listen to a radio station, record, type of music, etc.: The station has a listenership of 200,000.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- 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
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lithotritise — to perform a lithotrity
- little horse — the constellation Equuleus.
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- liverishness — Quality of being liverish.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- 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.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesolecithal — centrolecithal.
- mesothelioma — a malignant tumor of the covering of the lung or the lining of the pleural and abdominal cavities, often associated with exposure to asbestos.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
- metamorphism — Geology. a change in the structure or constitution of a rock due to natural agencies, as pressure and heat, especially when the rock becomes harder and more completely crystalline.
- metamorphist — a member of a group of 16th century Christians who believed that the humanly body of Jesus Christ metamorphosed into God during the Ascension
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- metatherians — Plural form of metatherian.
- metathesized — Simple past tense and past participle of metathesize.
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.