12-letter words containing h, o, n, u
- through-sung — sung throughout, with no spoken dialogue
- throw around — ideas, etc.: exchange, brainstorm
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
- thunderstone — any of various stones or fossils formerly thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
- thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
- tooth fungus — any of various mushrooms of the family Hydnaceae (and, in some classifications, allied families), having on the underside of the cap numerous conical spines rather than gills or pores.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- touch screen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- touch-me-not — any of several plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, especially I. noli-tangere, bearing pods that, when ripe, burst on being touched, scattering the seeds.
- touch-screen — using touch-sensitive screen
- touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
- ufo sighting — the sighting of a UFO
- unadmonished — not admonished, counselled, or warned
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
- unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
- unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
- uncoquettish — not flirtatious
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- undernourish — to deprive of or fail to provide with nutrients essential for health and growth
- underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- unencroached — to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits; make gradual inroads: A dictatorship of the majority is encroaching on the rights of the individual.
- uneuphonious — pleasant in sound; agreeable to the ear; characterized by euphony: a sweet, euphonious voice.
- unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
- unhandsomely — unattractively
- unharmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- unheroically — in an unheroic manner
- unhistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unhydrolysed — not having undergone hydrolysis
- uniform with — having the same form, appearance, etc. as
- union church — a congregation or denomination formed by the combination of two or more churches.
- unlikelihood — the state of being unlikely; improbability.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unmethodized — not organized systematically, according to a method
- unnewsworthy — (of a story or incident) not important or significant enough to be considered news
- unnoteworthy — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
- unnourishing — not providing nourishment
- unorthodoxly — not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy; not orthodox: an unorthodox ideology.
- unoverthrown — not overthrown
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken