12-letter words containing n, e, p, t, h
- empty-handed — carrying nothing
- enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
- enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
- encephalitic — Of or pertaining to encephalitis.
- encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
- encipherment — The act or process of enciphering; encryption.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
- ethnographer — One who practices ethnography.
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- gene therapy — the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.
- gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
- great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hepatization — the transformation of tissue into a liver-like substance, esp of the lungs in pneumonia
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high concept — a simple and often striking idea or premise, as of a story or film, that lends itself to easy promotion and marketing.
- high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country