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Inc :: Inc (n.) A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.

Hypoglossal :: Hypoglossal (a.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue..

Dozenth :: Dozenth (a.) Twelfth.

Twelfth-night :: Twelfth-night (n.) The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches..

House :: House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in

Minnesinger :: Minnesinger (n.) A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses..

December :: December (n.) The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice..

Pisces :: Pisces (n. pl.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs..

Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..

Twelfthtide :: Twelfthtide (n.) The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; -- called also Twelfth-day.

Digit :: Digit (n.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk..

Thirteenth :: Thirteenth (n.) The next in order after the twelfth.

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch..

Ounce :: Ounce (n.) The twelfth part of a troy pound.

Harmonics :: Harmonics (n.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones..

L :: L () L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus)..

Twelfth-day :: Twelfth-day (n.) See Twelfthtide.

Carmelite :: Carmelite (n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar..

Twelfth :: Twelfth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.

Thirteenth :: Thirteenth (a.) Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month..

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