12-letter words containing h, e, n, r, i, s
- churlishness — The state of being churlish.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- conchiferous — (esp of molluscs) having or producing a shell
- constraineth — Archaic third-person singular form of constrain.
- consumership — the state of being a consumer
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinherison — Disherison.
- disinherited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinherit.
- dissenterish — having a part of the character or quality of a dissenter
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
- english horn — musical instrument: similar to oboe
- enshrinement — (uncountable) The state of being enshrined.
- epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
- ethnohistory — The branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- exhortations — Plural form of exhortation.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.