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12-letter words containing h, o, l, e, i

  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
  • phrenologize — to treat with phrenology or phrenological methods
  • phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physiologies — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
  • plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
  • polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
  • polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
  • polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
  • polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
  • porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
  • psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • pyrophyllite — Mineralogy. a phyllosilicate, AlSi 2 O 5 (OH), usually having a white or greenish color, and occurring in either foliated or compact masses, the latter variety being used like soapstone.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
  • rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
  • rhinorrhoeal — of or relating to rhinorrhoea
  • rhode island — US state
  • road haulier — a person who owns or works for a road haulage company; a trucker
  • roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
  • rough collie — a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
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