12-letter words containing n, a, m, h
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- humification — the formation of humus.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- huntsmanship — The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
- hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- hypomyotonia — abnormally diminished muscular tone.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- iconomachist — a person who campaigns against the use of icons in religious worship
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- in the frame — If someone is in the frame for something such as a job or position, they are being considered for it.
- indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- inharmonical — Alternative form of inharmonic.
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
- inthrallment — Obsolete spelling of enthrallment.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- john mauchly — (person) /jon W mok'*-lee/ (rhymes with "broccoli") Dr. John W. Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- karnaugh map — A Karnaugh map is a pictorial method used to minimize Boolean expressions without having to use Boolean algebra theorems.
- kath and kim — a personification of the White population of middle Australia
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lamellaphone — Alt form lamellophone.
- lamellophone — (musical instruments) Any of several musical instruments in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellaa attached to a sounding board.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- 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.
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machinations — an act or instance of machinating.