12-letter words containing d, r, e, s, h
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- home address — the address of one's house or flat
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homesteaders — Plural form of homesteader.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- horse trader — a person who is shrewd and clever at bargaining.
- horse-dealer — a person who buys and sells horses as a profession
- horse-doctor — an informal word for a vet who specializes in treating horses
- horse-trader — a person who buys and sells horses
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- housedresses — Plural form of housedress.
- householders — Plural form of householder.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- hundred days — the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
- hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- hydrometeors — Plural form of hydrometeor.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hyperidrosis — excessive or abnormal sweating
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- inside right — (esp formerly) a player having mainly midfield and attacking roles
- irish bridge — a paved ford.
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.