12-letter words containing h, i, t, o, u
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- phosphaturia — the presence of an excessive quantity of phosphates in the urine.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- picture show — motion picture.
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
- preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- radiothorium — a disintegration product of thorium.
- re-authorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- slip through — be undetected
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
- straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable