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12-letter words containing h, o, n, r, i

  • 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.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
  • hudson riverHenry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
  • 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.
  • hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
  • hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
  • hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
  • hydroforming — the production of high-octane aromatic compounds for motor fuels by catalytic reforming of naphthas in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hydrogen ion — ionized hydrogen of the form H + , found in aqueous solutions of all acids.
  • 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.
  • hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
  • hydronically — in a hydronic manner; in a manner relating to a heating system that uses water
  • hydroplaning — a seaplane.
  • 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.
  • hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
  • hydroxyl ion — hydroxide ion
  • hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
  • hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
  • hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
  • hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
  • hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
  • hypophrygian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the fourth of the eight scales
  • hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
  • hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
  • iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
  • icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
  • in charge of — having responsibility for
  • in honour of — If something is arranged in honour of a particular event, it is arranged in order to celebrate that event.
  • in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
  • in search of — looking for, seeking
  • in the gross — in bulk; as a whole
  • in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
  • in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
  • incoherences — Plural form of incoherence.
  • incoherently — without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence.
  • indricothere — a long-necked, long-legged, fossil mammal, Indricotherium transouralicum, related to the rhinoceros and existing 10 to 30 million years ago, possibly the largest and heaviest land mammal.
  • infographics — Plural form of infographic.
  • ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
  • inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
  • inharmonical — Alternative form of inharmonic.
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