12-letter words containing h, e, u, r
- 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).
- keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
- kletterschuh — a lightweight climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and Vibram (originally felt or cord) sole
- lauraldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- lecture hall — conference room
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mare humorum — (Sea of Moisture) a dark plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 45,000 sq. mi. (117,000 sq. km).
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- 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.
- merrythought — the wishbone or furcula of a fowl.
- mesomorphous — mesomorphic
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mother house — a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- motherhouses — Plural form of motherhouse.
- motormouthed — (of a person) Being a motor mouth; inclined to talk too much.
- mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
- mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necrophorous — denoting animals, such as certain beetles, that carry away the bodies of dead animals
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- 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.
- neurohormone — any of various substances, as antidiuretic hormone, formed in the nervous system and delivered to an effector organ through blood circulation.
- neurohumoral — of or pertaining to a neurohumour
- neuronopathy — A form of polyneuropathy caused by destruction of neurons.