12-letter words containing e, n, c, u
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hoisin sauce — a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- in course of — in the process of
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- inaccuracies — Plural form of inaccuracy.
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- incalculable — very numerous or great.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- incongruence — not congruent.
- incongruency — Incongruence.
- inconsequent — characterized by lack of proper sequence in thought, speech, or action.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.