12-letter words containing h, o, n, e, d
- detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
- dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
- diamond head — promontory in SE Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu, consisting of the rim of an extinct volcanic crater
- diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- dishonesties — Plural form of dishonesty.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinherison — Disherison.
- dodecahedron — a solid figure having 12 faces.
- dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- earth almond — chufa.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- endochondral — occurring, or present, in cartilage
- endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- exheredation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- four hundred — the exclusive social set of a city or area.
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- golden hello — A golden hello is a sum of money that a company offers to a person in order to persuade them to join the company.
- golden horde — the army of Mongol Tartars that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century, established a khanate in Russia, and maintained suzerainty there until the 15th century.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues