12-letter words containing e, n, s, h, r
- hash-slinger — a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.
- head sherang — the boss; person in authority
- headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- helleborines — Plural form of helleborine.
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
- help screens — computer instructions displayed on a visual display unit
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- 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
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heteronomous — subject to or involving different laws.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hidradenitis — (medicine) inflammation of the sweat glands.
- hierophanies — Plural form of hierophany.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- his and hers — (of paired objects) for a man and woman respectively
- honeymooners — Plural form of honeymooner.
- honor system — a system whereby the students at a school, the inmates in a prison, etc., are put on their honor to observe certain rules in order to minimize administrative supervision or to promote honesty.
- hornlessness — Absence of horns.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- 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 manure — horse's excrement
- horse marine — (formerly) a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman doing duty on shipboard.
- horse nettle — a large, prickly North American weed, Solanum carolinense, of the nightshade family, having violet to white flowers in a few clusters.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- horse's neck — a drink of whiskey and ginger ale, served with ice and garnished with a spiral of lemon peel on the rim of the glass.