12-letter words containing h, e, n, o, u, s
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- 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.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- 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.
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- running shoe — trainer, sneaker
- sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- shame on you — expressing disapproval
- 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).
- 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.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- southeastern — from the south east
- southernmost — farthest south.
- southernness — the state of being southern
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- superheroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
- synantherous — with united anthers
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- the conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
- thunderstone — any of various stones or fossils formerly thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
- thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
- touch screen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- touch-screen — using touch-sensitive screen
- unadmonished — not admonished, counselled, or warned
- uncoquettish — not flirtatious
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- undernourish — to deprive of or fail to provide with nutrients essential for health and growth