12-letter words containing s, a, h, i
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misemphasize — to emphasize incorrectly
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- mishappening — Present participle of mishappen.
- mismatchment — an inappropriate match
- mithridatism — the production of immunity against the action of a poison by taking the poison in gradually increased doses.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
- morris chair — a large armchair having an adjustable back and loose, removable cushions.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mountain ash — variety of tree
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- nail varnish — nail polish.
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- naughty bits — genitals
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- nephanalysis — a map or chart showing the distribution of types and amounts of clouds and precipitation at a given time.
- neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- nicholas iii — (Giovanni Gaetani Orsini) died 1280, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1277–80.
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- nihil obstat — permission to publish a book, granted by an official censor who, upon examining it, has certified that it contains nothing contrary to faith or morals.
- nilo-saharan — a family of African languages, including the Central and Eastern Sudanic groups as well as Kanuri, Songhai, and other languages, spoken from the Sahara southward to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- non-hispanic — Spanish.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- nonphysician — a person who is not a physician
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
- north island — the northernmost principal island of New Zealand. 44,281 sq. mi. (114,690 sq. km).
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- ochlocracies — Plural form of ochlocracy.
- octastichous — relating to a particular coiled distribution of leaves on the stem that is characterized by having eight leaves per coil on the stem
- octastrophic — having or containing eight verses or strophes
- oesophagitis — Alternative spelling of esophagitis.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- on shipboard — on board a ship
- one-base hit — single (def 24).