12-letter words containing t, o, l, n, a
- golden state — California (used as a nickname).
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- habilitation — to clothe or dress.
- habitational — a place of residence; dwelling; abode.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- halogenating — Present participle of halogenate.
- halogenation — (chemistry) The reaction of a halogen with something, especially the replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a halogen one.
- halotolerant — (biology) Able to tolerate a high concentration of salt in its environment.
- halton hills — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, near Toronto.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- hazelnut oil — an oil extracted from hazelnuts and used mostly in cooking
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- heel-and-toe — noting a pace, as in walking contests, in which the heel of the front foot touches ground before the toes of the rear one leave it.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hill station — a village, post, or the like, especially in S Asia, at a high altitude where government officials and others can be stationed to escape the great heat of tropical summers.
- histrionical — (British) Alternative form of histrionic.
- hobnail boot — a boot with a hobnail in the sole
- hofmannsthal — Hugo von [hoo-goh fuh n] /ˈhu goʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1874–1929, Austrian poet, playwright, and librettist.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- holoplankton — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- homologation — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- horizontally — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hypnotically — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- hypoplastron — the third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles
- iconoclastic — attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions, etc., as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity: an iconoclastic architect whose buildings are like monumental sculptures.