12-letter words containing h, i, l
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- hood molding — a molding or dripstone over a door or window.
- hoovervilles — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- horizontally — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horrifically — causing horror.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- horse pistol — a large pistol formerly carried by horsemen.
- horse trials — a competitive sporting event at which riders have to show their skill in dressage, show-jumping, and cross-country
- horse's tail — burro's tail.
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalists — Plural form of hospitalist.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hospitalize.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- howlin' wolf — (Chester Arthur Burnett) 1910–76, U.S. blues singer.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- hydrochloric — of or derived from hydrochloric acid.
- hydrocolloid — a substance that forms a colloid when combined with water.
- hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
- hydrological — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hydronically — in a hydronic manner; in a manner relating to a heating system that uses water
- hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
- hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hydroxyl ion — hydroxide ion
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hylomorphism — the theory that every physical object is composed of two principles, an unchanging prime matter and a form deprived of actuality with every substantial change of the object.
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.