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12-letter words containing i, s, h

  • apparatchiks — a member of an apparat, especially in a Communist country.
  • apple-polish — to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
  • apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
  • apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
  • archdiocesan — Relating to an archdiocese.
  • archdioceses — Plural form of archdiocese.
  • archeologist — archaeology.
  • archerfishes — Plural form of archerfish.
  • archesporial — the primitive cell, or group of cells, that give rise to the cells from which spores are derived.
  • archesporium — archespore.
  • archibenthos — the ocean bottom between the littoral and abyssal zones: from depths of approximately 200 feet (60 meters) to 3300 feet (1000 meters).
  • archiblastic — of, relating to, or derived from an archiblast.
  • archipelagos — Plural form of archipelago.
  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • archosaurian — belonging to or characteristic of the archosaurs
  • arctophilist — a collector of teddy bears
  • ariel sharon — Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
  • aristolochia — any of various plants of the genus Aristolochia of the family Aristolochiaceae
  • aristophanes — ?448–?380 bc, Greek comic dramatist, who satirized leading contemporary figures such as Socrates and Euripides. Eleven of his plays are extant, including The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds, and Lysistrata
  • aristophanic — 448?–385? b.c, Athenian comic dramatist.
  • arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
  • arsphenamine — a drug containing arsenic, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and related infections
  • arthroscopic — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
  • arthrotomies — Plural form of arthrotomy.
  • ashurbanipal — died ?626 bc, king of Assyria (?668–?626): son of Esarhaddon. He built the magnificent palace and library at Nineveh
  • asphyxiating — to produce asphyxia in.
  • asphyxiation — Asphyxiation is a lack of oxygen in blood, which causes suffocation.
  • assessorship — the occupation, post or duties of a person who assesses, advises, or estimates
  • astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
  • astonishment — Astonishment is a feeling of great surprise.
  • astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
  • astrophysics — Astrophysics is the study of the physical and chemical structure of the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space.
  • asynchronies — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
  • asynchronism — a lack of synchronism; occurrence at different times
  • at this rate — If you say that at this rate something bad or extreme will happen, you mean that it will happen if things continue to develop as they have been doing.
  • athrocytosis — the capability of a cell to receive and store matter
  • athwartships — from one side to the other of a vessel at right angles to the keel
  • atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
  • atmospherium — an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.
  • attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
  • australopith — (archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology) Of or pertaining to the extinct hominid primates, of the genus Australopithecus, from the Pleistocene period.
  • autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
  • automorphism — the practice of seeing others as having the same characteristics as oneself
  • autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
  • autotheistic — Self-worshiping; prideful in the extreme.
  • axiom schema — (logic)   A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, containing one or more. These metasyntactic variables (or "schematic variables") that stand for terms or subformulae. An example is the Axiom of Comprehension.
  • bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
  • backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
  • backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
  • bairnsfather — Bruce. 1888–1959, British cartoonist, born in India: best known for his cartoons of the war in the trenches during World War I
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