12-letter words containing s, o, t, h, e
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- here to stay — If you say that something is here to stay, you mean that people have accepted it and it has become a part of everyday life.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
- heteromerous — having or consisting of parts that differ in quality, number of elements, or the like: a heteromerous flower.
- heteronomous — subject to or involving different laws.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
- heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heterosexism — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
- heterosexist — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
- heterosexual — of, relating to, or exhibiting heterosexuality.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- heterosphere — The upper part of the atmosphere, above about sixty miles, in which there is great variation in its composition.
- heterostyled — (of a plant) having styles of different forms or lengths in the flowers.
- heterotherms — Plural form of heterotherm.
- heterotopias — Plural form of heterotopia.
- heterotrophs — Biology. an organism requiring organic compounds for its principal source of food.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- high society — society (def 9).
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high-tension — subjected to or capable of operating under relatively high voltage: high-tension wire.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- histochemist — someone who specializes in histochemistry
- histogenesis — the origin and development of tissues.
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- hit the spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- hiv positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hiv-positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
- hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
- hohenstaufen — a member of the royal family that ruled in Germany from 1138 to 1208 and from 1215 to 1254, and in Sicily from 1194 to 1266.
- hojatoleslam — a title of respect given to an ayatollah or a middle-ranking Shiite cleric, which means literally 'proof of Islam'
- holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)