12-letter words containing h, o, n, u
- unroadworthy — not mechanically sound or suitable for use on the road
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- unthought-of — simple past tense and past participle of unthink.
- unthoughtful — showing consideration for others; considerate.
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- viscountship — the position of being a viscount
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
- wrought iron — a form of iron, almost entirely free of carbon and having a fibrous structure including a uniformly distributed slag content, that is readily forged and welded.
- xanthomatous — of, relating to, or marked by xanthoma
- you-know-who — a person whose name one does not want to say, but who is known to the person to whom one is speaking
- youghiogheny — a river flowing from NW Maryland through SW Pennsylvania into the Monongahela River. 135 miles (217 km) long.
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain
- youthfulness — characterized by youth; young.
- zhang zuolin — Chang Tso-lin.
- zuid-holland — South Holland