12-letter words containing e, n, t, h, u, s
- honest injun — honestly (used to emphasize the truth of a statement).
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- neurochemist — A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- neutrosphere — the part of the atmosphere whose constituents are, for the most part, electrically neutral, extending from the earth's surface to the base of the ionosphere.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- on the house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- see the menu — When a customer asks to see the menu, they ask you to bring them a copy of the menu.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.