12-letter words containing h, o, n, e, s
- ionospherist — Someone who studies the ionosphere.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- jogging shoe — an athletic shoe designed to be worn while jogging.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- johnny house — Johnny (def 3).
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- ken thompson — (person) The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet in particular) that without a last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey (then 18 months old) went to visit family in San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was it "Space Travel"?). See also back door, brute force, demigod, wumpus.
- khornerstone — A multipurpose benchmark from Workstation Labs used in various periodicals. The source is not free. Results are published in "UNIX Review".
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- lincolnshire — a county in E England. 2272 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km).
- lion's share — the largest part or share, especially a disproportionate portion: The eldest son received the lion's share of the estate.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- love handles — fat midriff
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- 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.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- monkey house — a cage or enclosure in a zoo where monkeys are kept
- monkeyshines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
- monotheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to monotheism, the doctrine that there is only one God: a monotheistic religion.