12-letter words containing n, s, h, e, l
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- hexasiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any siloxane having six -Si-O- groups.
- hispaniolize — to make someone Spanish in their cultural attitudes, values, speech, etc
- hispanophile — an admirer of Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- hog's fennel — any of several Eurasian umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Peucedanum, esp P. officinale, having clusters of small whitish flowers
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- homelessness — without a home: a homeless child.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- hopelessness — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- hornlessness — Absence of horns.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horse nettle — a large, prickly North American weed, Solanum carolinense, of the nightshade family, having violet to white flowers in a few clusters.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- 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.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- in rehearsal — being prepared for public performance
- in the flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- in the least — You can use in the least and the least bit to emphasize a negative.
- inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
- jingle shell — any of several marine, bivalve mollusks of the genus Anomia, having a thin, pearly shell with a conspicuous hole or notch near the hinge of the lower valve.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- lichtenstein — Roy, 1923–97, U.S. painter and sculptor.
- lincolnshire — a county in E England. 2272 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km).
- line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
- lion's share — the largest part or share, especially a disproportionate portion: The eldest son received the lion's share of the estate.
- 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.
- 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.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- liverishness — Quality of being liverish.