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12-letter words containing p, h, e, n

  • sumphishness — stupidity, sulkiness
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superheroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
  • tape machine — a tape recorder.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pentagon — a five-sided building in Arlington, Va., in which the main offices of the U.S. Department of Defense are located; hence, the U.S. military establishment
  • the pliocene — the Pliocene epoch or rock series
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • theatrophone — a late 19th century service that allowed subscribers to listen to concerts or plays through the telephone
  • theophylline — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theobromine, extracted from tea leaves or produced synthetically: used to relieve bronchial spasms, in the treatment of certain heart conditions, and as a diuretic.
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • thomas paine — Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
  • tip the wink — to give a hint
  • to the point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
  • trephination — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
  • trichopteran — trichopterous.
  • trichopteron — trichopteran.
  • unalphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
  • unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
  • undeciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
  • unemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • uneuphonious — pleasant in sound; agreeable to the ear; characterized by euphony: a sweet, euphonious voice.
  • unhospitable — not hospitable
  • unhyphenated — without a hyphen
  • unperishable — imperishable
  • unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
  • unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
  • unpunishable — not able to be punished
  • unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
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