12-letter words containing n, a, c, e
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- hoisin sauce — a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.
- holocephalan — (zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; the chimeras.
- home machine — 1. Synonym home box. 2. The machine that receives your e-mail. These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads e-mail at work.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- ian maclaren — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- impermanence — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- impermanency — Alternative form of impermanence.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- in character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- in that case — then
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- in the chair — chairing a debate or meeting
- in the clear — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- inabstinence — a lack of abstinence or abstention
- inacceptable — Unacceptable.
- inaccessible — Unable to be reached.
- inaccessibly — In an inaccessible manner.
- inaccuracies — Plural form of inaccuracy.
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- inapplicable — not applicable; unsuitable.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.