12-letter words containing h, o, n, e, y
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heterochrony — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- honey badger — ratel.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- honeycreeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
- honeymooners — Plural form of honeymooner.
- honeymooning — (of a married couple) On a honeymoon.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- honor system — a system whereby the students at a school, the inmates in a prison, etc., are put on their honor to observe certain rules in order to minimize administrative supervision or to promote honesty.
- hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
- hooray henry — a young upper-class man, often with affectedly hearty voice and manners
- horned poppy — any of several Eurasian papaveraceous plants of the genera Glaucium and Roemeria, having large brightly coloured flowers and long curved seed capsules
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrocyclone — A hydrocyclone is a vessel used for separating two liquids with different densities, by the circular movement of fluid.
- hydrogen ion — ionized hydrogen of the form H + , found in aqueous solutions of all acids.
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrogenize.
- hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hydroquinone — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 2 , formed by the reduction of quinone: used chiefly in photography and to inhibit autoxidation reactions.