kham·sin 
(kăm-sēn)
(kăm-sēn)n.
A generally southerly hot wind originating in the Sahara that blows across Egypt from late March to early May.
[Arabic (rīḥ al-)ḫamsīn, (wind of the) 50 (days), khamsin, from oblique case of ḫamsūn, fifty, from ḫams, five; see ḫmš in the Appendix of Semitic roots.]
- parthenote
- Parthia
- Parthian
- partial
- partial-birth abortion
- partial derivative
- partial differential equation
- partial differentiation
- partial dominance
- partial eclipse
- partial fraction
- partiality
- partially
- partialness
- partial pressure
- partial seizure
- partial tone
- partible
- participance
- participant
- participate
- participation
- participational
- participative
- participator