12-letter words containing n, e, p, t, h
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hypergenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hyperintense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- 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.
- hypnotherapy — treatment of a symptom, disease, or addiction by means of hypnotism.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hypoxanthine — a white, crystalline, almost water-soluble, alkaloidal purine derivative, C 5 H 4 N 4 O, found in animal and vegetable tissues: used chiefly in biochemical research.
- 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.
- inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- interchapter — a short chapter in a book that occurs between two major chapters
- interpsychic — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- intrahepatic — (anatomy) Within the liver.
- ionospherist — Someone who studies the ionosphere.
- iontotherapy — (medicine) The therapeutic use of iontophoresis.
- ip telephony — (communications) (IPT, Internet Telephony) Use of IP data connections to exchange voice and fax data that have traditionally been carried over the public switched telephone network. During the late 1990s, an increasing number of telephone calls have been routed over the Internet. Calls made in this way avoid PSTN charges. Unlike traditional telephony, IP telephony is relatively unregulated. Companies providing these services are known as Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs). They include telephone companies, cable TV companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). There are still many problems with voice quality, latency, compression algorithms, and quality of service. See also Computer Telephone Integration.
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- jump the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- keep in with — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- ken thompson — (person) The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet in particular) that without a last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey (then 18 months old) went to visit family in San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was it "Space Travel"?). See also back door, brute force, demigod, wumpus.
- kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- 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.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- metallophone — any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- mis-shipment — a quantity of freight or cargo shipped at one time.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.