12-letter words containing h, o, d, i, n
- postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- pyritohedron — a crystal form of 12 pentagonal faces.
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- rhode island — US state
- ride herd on — a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
- thionic acid — any of the five acids of sulfur of the type H 2 S n O 6 , where n is from two to six.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
- unadmonished — not admonished, counselled, or warned
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
- undernourish — to deprive of or fail to provide with nutrients essential for health and growth
- unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- unlikelihood — the state of being unlikely; improbability.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unmethodized — not organized systematically, according to a method