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12-letter words containing i, n, s, h, p

  • hot swapping — (hardware)   The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
  • housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
  • housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
  • huntsmanship — The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
  • hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
  • hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
  • hypergenesis — an origin, creation, or beginning.
  • hyperintense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
  • hyperkinesia — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
  • hyperkinesis — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypersthenia — abnormal strength or tension
  • hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
  • hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
  • hypnogenesis — induction of the hypnotic state.
  • hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
  • hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
  • hypophonesis — a sound of less than usual intensity in percussion or auscultation.
  • ichnospecies — (paleontology) Any species known only from trace fossils, such as footprints, coprolites or nests.
  • iconophilism — a taste for pictures and symbols
  • iconophilist — a person with a taste for pictures and symbols
  • impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
  • in deep shit — excrement; feces.
  • in the chips — a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
  • in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
  • in-bond shop — a duty-free shop
  • infographics — Plural form of infographic.
  • inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • inhospitably — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • interpsychic — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
  • intrapsychic — Within the psyche or mind.
  • ionophoresis — electrophoresis, esp of small ions
  • ionospherist — Someone who studies the ionosphere.
  • kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
  • kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
  • kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
  • limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
  • lisp machine — 1.   (architecture)   Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2.   (hardware, operating system)   A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
  • listenership — the people or number of people who listen to a radio station, record, type of music, etc.: The station has a listenership of 200,000.
  • lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
  • lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • 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.
  • ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
  • mis-shipment — a quantity of freight or cargo shipped at one time.
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