12-letter words containing h, o, n, r, l, e
- purple heron — an Old World heron, Ardea purpurea, having maroon, buff, and black plumage.
- rear echelon — (in a military operation) the troops, officers, etc., removed from the combat zone and responsible for administration, matériel, etc.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
- rhinorrhoeal — of or relating to rhinorrhoea
- rhode island — US state
- roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
- thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
- torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
- trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
- tyrolean hat — a man's soft felt hat with a somewhat conical crown that is flat and creased at the top, a narrow brim partially turned up, and, usually, a feather for decoration
- unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- unheroically — in an unheroic manner
- unhydrolysed — not having undergone hydrolysis
- unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.