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12-letter words containing h, o, m, a, l

  • nomothetical — Nomothetic.
  • normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
  • old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
  • omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
  • omphalomancy — Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have.
  • omphaloscopy — Introversion.
  • ophthalmitis — ophthalmia.
  • ophthamology — Misspelling of ophthalmology.
  • opthalmology — Misspelling of ophthalmology.
  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
  • phaeomelanin — a variety of melanin that gives rise to a red-coloured pigment
  • phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
  • pharmacology — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • phenomenally — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
  • phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
  • philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
  • phlegmagogic — a medication that is intended to dislodge and evacuate mucus from the respiratory system
  • phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
  • phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • 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.
  • phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
  • 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.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • plymouth bay — a small, well-protected bay on the coast of Massachusetts; the first permanent European settlement in New England; founded by the Pilgrim Fathers.
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polypharmacy — the use of two or more drugs together, usually to treat a single condition or disease.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothalamium — prothalamion.
  • pyophthalmia — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
  • schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • 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.
  • smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
  • spasmophilia — a condition in which only moderate mechanical or electrical stimulation produces spasms, convulsions, or tetany.
  • spasmophilic — of or noting spasmophilia.
  • stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
  • steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • 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
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