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12-letter words containing h, o, m, i, n, s

  • home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
  • homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
  • homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
  • hominy grits — grits (def 1).
  • homo sapiens — (italics) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
  • homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
  • homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
  • horse marine — (formerly) a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman doing duty on shipboard.
  • horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
  • house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
  • humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
  • hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
  • iconomachist — a person who campaigns against the use of icons in religious worship
  • iconophilism — a taste for pictures and symbols
  • 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.
  • inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
  • limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
  • locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
  • machinations — an act or instance of machinating.
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • macintosh ii — (computer)   (Mac II) A version of Apple's Macintosh personal computer, released in March 1987, using the Motorola 68020 CPU, which runs at a higher clock rate than the Motorola 68000 used in the original Mac. The Mac II has a full 32-bit data bus instead of a 16-bit bus. Mac II models have built-in 40 to 160 megabyte hard disks and can take up to eight megabytes of RAM (and more as denser memory chips arive). The Mac II was the first Macintosh to provide a colour graphics option, with up to 256 colours on screen at a 640x480 resolution. Mac II models are designed for expandability with three (Macintosh IIcx) or six (II & IIx) built-in NuBus expansion slots for additional peripheral and coprocessor boards.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • 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.
  • meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
  • melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
  • melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
  • microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
  • microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
  • misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
  • misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
  • monkeyshines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
  • monochromist — An artist working in the monochromatic style.
  • monomorphism — a one-to-one homomorphism.
  • monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
  • monophysitic — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
  • monorchidism — a prenatal or postnatal condition in which one testis is absent or has not descended into the scrotum.
  • monostichous — (of parts) forming one row
  • monostrophic — consisting of stanzas or strophes all having the same metrical structure.
  • monotheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to monotheism, the doctrine that there is only one God: a monotheistic religion.
  • monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
  • month's mind — a Requiem Mass said on the thirtieth day after a person's death or burial.
  • motherliness — The property of being motherly.
  • mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
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