12-letter words containing h, a, o, r
- 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.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- 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.
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrocephaly — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrocracker — a high-pressure processing unit used for hydrocracking.
- hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrographer — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- hydrographic — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- hydrological — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydronically — in a hydronic manner; in a manner relating to a heating system that uses water
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
- 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.
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- hydroxy acid — an organic acid containing both a carboxyl and a hydroxyl group.
- hydroxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of hydroxylate.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hygrographic — of or relating to a hygrograph
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- hyperarousal — A state of heightened psychological and physiological tension resulting in reduced pain tolerance, anxiety, excessive response to sensory stimulation, insomnia, and fatigue.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
- hyperlogical — reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind: logical thinking.
- hyperosmolar — Of, pertaining to, or as a result of hyperosmolarity.
- hyperreactor — a person who behaves in a hyperreactive manner