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12-letter words containing h, u, t, m

  • inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
  • inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
  • james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
  • jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
  • jump the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
  • kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
  • lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
  • lithium lick — NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!"
  • lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
  • loud-mouthed — If you describe someone as loud-mouthed, you are critical of them because they talk a lot, especially in an unpleasant, offensive, or stupid way.
  • magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
  • make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • massachusett — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
  • matthew quay — Matthew Stanley, 1833–1904, U.S. politician: senator 1887–99, 1901–4.
  • meet up with — see socially
  • 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.
  • merrythought — the wishbone or furcula of a fowl.
  • mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
  • 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.
  • metamorphous — metamorphic.
  • methaqualone — a nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic substance, C 1 6 H 1 4 N 2 O, used to induce sleep: also widely used as an illicit drug.
  • methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
  • middle dutch — the Dutch language of the period c1100–c1500. Abbreviation: MD.
  • middle youth — the period of life between about 30 and 50
  • midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
  • miss the bus — lose opportunity
  • miss the cut — to achieve a greater score after the first two rounds of a strokeplay tournament than that required to play in the remaining two rounds
  • monostichous — (of parts) forming one row
  • monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
  • mosquitofish — any of several fishes that feed on mosquito larvae, as Gambusia affinis, found in the southeastern U.S., now introduced into other parts of the world for mosquito control.
  • moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
  • mother house — a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
  • motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • motherhouses — Plural form of motherhouse.
  • motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
  • motormouthed — (of a person) Being a motor mouth; inclined to talk too much.
  • mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
  • mount shasta — Mount, a volcanic peak in N California, in the Cascade Range. 14,161 feet (4315 meters).
  • mountain ash — variety of tree
  • moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
  • mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.
  • multipathing — (computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static
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