12-letter words containing c, a, t, r, o
- hark back to — recall: earlier era
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- heterocercal — having an unequally divided tail, characteristic of sharks, rays, and skates.
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- heterotactic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- histrionical — (British) Alternative form of histrionic.
- holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
- home teacher — private tutor
- homoromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the same gender.
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
- hyperreactor — a person who behaves in a hyperreactive manner
- 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.
- hypothecator — to pledge to a creditor as security without delivering over; mortgage.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- ichthyolatry — The worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols.
- ichthyosaurs — Plural form of ichthyosaur.
- immoralistic — (somewhat, rare) Of or relating to immoralism.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incarcerator — A person who incarcerates.
- incarnations — Plural form of incarnation.
- incineration — to burn or reduce to ashes; cremate.
- incinerators — Plural form of incinerator.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incoordinate — not coordinate; not coordinated.
- incoronation — a crowning; coronation
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- incorporates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incorporate.
- incorporator — one of the signers of the articles or certificate of legal incorporation.
- incrassation — The process of thickening.
- incrustation — an incrusting or being incrusted.
- indoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inspectorate — the office or function of an inspector.