12-letter words containing e, u, h, a, r
- headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- heart murmur — murmur (def 3).
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heterauxesis — an unequal or asymmetrical growth of cells, parts of plants or animals
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- heterosexual — of, relating to, or exhibiting heterosexuality.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- 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 manure — horse's excrement
- house arrest — confinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail: He was under house arrest until the day of his trial.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- 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.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- how are you? — what is your state of health?
- how dare you — You say 'how dare you' when you are very shocked and angry about something that someone has done.
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- 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.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- 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.
- hyperarousal — A state of heightened psychological and physiological tension resulting in reduced pain tolerance, anxiety, excessive response to sensory stimulation, insomnia, and fatigue.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- hypertextual — Of or relating to hypertext.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- johore bahru — a city in and the capital of Johore state, Malaysia, in the S part.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).