12-letter words containing h, i, t, o, u
- 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.
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- ethosuximide — A particular anticonvulsant drug.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
- fight it out — a battle or combat.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- get in touch — make contact
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- hazelnut oil — an oil extracted from hazelnuts and used mostly in cooking
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
- 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 country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- high-wrought — highly agitated; overwrought.
- hill country — hilly area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippopotamus — a large herbivorous mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, having a thick hairless body, short legs, and a large head and muzzle, found in and near the rivers, lakes, etc., of Africa, and able to remain under water for a considerable time.
- hit (out) at — to aim a blow at; try to hit
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- honest injun — honestly (used to emphasize the truth of a statement).
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humification — the formation of humus.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hypoeutectic — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- hypofunction — abnormally diminished function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.