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12-letter words containing h, o, s, t, i, e

  • 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.
  • homeopathist — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
  • 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.
  • homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
  • homoeostasis — Alternative spelling of homeostasis.
  • homoiotherms — Plural form of homoiotherm.
  • honest injun — honestly (used to emphasize the truth of a statement).
  • hootenannies — Plural form of hootenanny.
  • horse pistol — a large pistol formerly carried by horsemen.
  • horse trials — a competitive sporting event at which riders have to show their skill in dressage, show-jumping, and cross-country
  • horse's tail — burro's tail.
  • hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
  • hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
  • hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
  • hospitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hospitalize.
  • hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
  • house lights — lights of a residential building
  • house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
  • housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
  • housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
  • hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
  • hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperostosis — abnormal development of bony tissue.
  • hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
  • hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
  • hypoesthesia — an abnormally weak sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch.
  • hypostasised — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
  • hypostatised — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
  • hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
  • hyposulphite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
  • hypothesis's — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
  • hypothesised — to form a hypothesis.
  • hypothesises — to form a hypothesis.
  • hypothesized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothesize.
  • hypothesizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypothesize.
  • hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
  • hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
  • iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
  • idiothermous — warm-blooded
  • in the gross — in bulk; as a whole
  • in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • inchoateness — The quality of being inchoate.
  • inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
  • inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
  • introvertish — Introverted.
  • ionospherist — Someone who studies the ionosphere.
  • ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
  • isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
  • isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
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