12-letter words containing h, o, r, e, n, d
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- 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.
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- 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
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- 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.
- time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
- unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
- 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.
- unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- unhydrolysed — not having undergone hydrolysis
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- van der rohe — Ludwig Mies [luhd-wig meez,, mees] /ˈlʌd wɪg miz,, mis/ (Show IPA), Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- 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.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wooden horse — Trojan horse (def 1).
- wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer