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12-letter words containing t, i, p, l

  • gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
  • graphologist — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • guilty party — the person or people responsible for an offence or misdeed
  • hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
  • haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
  • haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
  • helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
  • heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
  • heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
  • help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
  • herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
  • heteroleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having two or more types of ligand.
  • heterophilic — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
  • heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
  • heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
  • holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
  • holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
  • holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
  • horse pistol — a large pistol formerly carried by horsemen.
  • hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
  • hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
  • hospitalists — Plural form of hospitalist.
  • hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
  • hospitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hospitalize.
  • hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
  • hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
  • hyperreality — The state or condition of being hyperreal.
  • hyperspatial — Pertaining to hyperspace.
  • hypertypical — excessively typical
  • hypnotically — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
  • hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
  • hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
  • hypochlorite — a salt or ester of hypochlorous acid.
  • hypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
  • hypomotility — abnormally slow motility, as of the stomach or intestine (opposed to hypermotility).
  • hyposulphite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
  • hypothalamic — Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.
  • hypothetical — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
  • iconophilist — a person with a taste for pictures and symbols
  • idiopathical — Alternative form of idiopathic.
  • ill-tempered — bad or irritable disposition.
  • impartialist — Someone who is or pretends to be impartial.
  • impartiality — not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
  • imparticular — (proscribed) in particular.
  • impedimental — Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
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