12-letter words containing het
- 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.
- heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
- heterokontan — of or relating to a heterokont
- heteroleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having two or more types of ligand.
- 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.
- heteromorphy — (biology) The state or quality of being heteromorphic; heteromorphism.
- 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).
- heterophilic — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heterophoria — a latent strabismus of one or both eyes.
- heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
- heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
- 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.
- heterotactic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- heterothally — the condition of being heterothallic
- heterotherms — Plural form of heterotherm.
- heterothermy — The possession of characteristics of both poikilothermy and homeothermy.
- heterotopias — Plural form of heterotopia.
- heterotrophs — Biology. an organism requiring organic compounds for its principal source of food.
- heterotrophy — The state of being a heterotroph.
- heterozygote — a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- hypothetical — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
- kinesthetics — The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body. Referred by some people as the sixth sense.
- mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
- metathetical — (linguistics) exhibiting metathesis.
- nomothetical — Nomothetic.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty
- paraesthetic — paresthesia.
- pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.