12-letter words containing p, h, o, n, a
- enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
- 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.
- eosinophilia — An increase in the number of eosinophils in the blood, occurring in response to some allergens, drugs, and parasites, and in some types of leukemia.
- 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.
- epencephalon — the cerebellum and pons Varolii
- epiphenomena — Plural form of epiphenomenon.
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
- ethnographer — One who practices ethnography.
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- general shop — a shop that sells various types of goods
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
- halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hanging post — a post from which a door, gate, etc., is hung.
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- 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
- heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
- hierophanies — Plural form of hierophany.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people