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12-letter words containing h, o, l, s, t, n

  • in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
  • inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • inhospitably — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
  • latin school — a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.
  • lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
  • lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
  • loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
  • locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
  • long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
  • long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
  • lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
  • lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
  • marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
  • monk's cloth — a heavy cotton fabric in a basket weave, used for curtains, bedspreads, etc.
  • motherliness — The property of being motherly.
  • nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
  • nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
  • netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
  • neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
  • night school — a school held in the evening, especially for working adults and others who are unable to attend school during the day.
  • nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
  • nihil obstat — permission to publish a book, granted by an official censor who, upon examining it, has certified that it contains nothing contrary to faith or morals.
  • nitrophilous — (of plants) growing in soil well supplied with nitrogen
  • no less than — at least
  • north island — the northernmost principal island of New Zealand. 44,281 sq. mi. (114,690 sq. km).
  • old chestnut — old saying, cliché
  • on the loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
  • on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
  • on the slate — on credit
  • on the tiles — on a spree, esp of drinking or debauchery
  • open slather — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
  • outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
  • penalty shot — a free shot at the goal defended only by the goalkeeper, awarded to an offensive player for certain defensive violations.
  • photoanalyst — a person who analyzes and interprets photographs, especially a military specialist in aerial or satellite photography.
  • 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.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
  • semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
  • shot on goal — a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player.
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
  • slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
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