12-letter words containing h, i, r, s, u
- diphosphorus — (chemistry, in combination) two atoms of phosphorus in a compound.
- 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
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- 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
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of 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.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- 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.
- 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).
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hippo regius — a seaport of ancient Numidia: St. Augustine was bishop here a.d. 395–430; the site of modern Annaba, in Algeria.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- honorius iii — (Cencio Savelli) died 1227, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1216–27.
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house prices — the sums in money for which houses may be bought or sold
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.