12-letter words containing h, o, n, u, r
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- northborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
- northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
- on the outer — excluded or neglected
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- orthodonture — orthodontia (def 2).
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paranthropus — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Paranthropus.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- phenyl group — the univalent group C 6 H 5 –, derived from benzene.
- phone number — of individual, business
- photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
- photoneutron — a neutron emitted from a nucleus during photodisintegration.
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- 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
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
- port hueneme — a city in S California.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- purple heron — an Old World heron, Ardea purpurea, having maroon, buff, and black plumage.
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
- queen mother — a queen dowager who is mother of a reigning sovereign.
- rammohun roy — Rammohun [rah-moh-hon] /rɑˈmoʊ hɒn/ (Show IPA), 1774–1833, Indian religious leader: founder of Brahmo Samaj.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- roughhousing — the act of behaving in a boisterous or rough way
- 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.
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- run to earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- running shoe — trainer, sneaker
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.