12-letter words containing h, i, e, r, u
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- dehumidifier — A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- figure eight — figure eight.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- 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.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- heterauxesis — an unequal or asymmetrical growth of cells, parts of plants or animals
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.