12-letter words containing h, o, n, u, r
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- four hundred — the exclusive social set of a city or area.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- half an hour — 30 minutes
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heteronomous — subject to or involving different laws.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- 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.
- hill country — hilly area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homochronous — (of a genetic character) occurring at the same age or period in the offspring as in the parent.
- honorius iii — (Cencio Savelli) died 1227, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1216–27.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- host country — nation staging an international event
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.