12-letter words containing h, o, u, n, d
- jodo shinshu — the largest sect of Jodo, stressing simple trust rather than ritual as the means to salvation.
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- muttonheaded — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- nonhazardous — Not hazardous; safe.
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- open-mouthed — having the mouth open.
- orthodonture — orthodontia (def 2).
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- 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.
- 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
- smooth hound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- 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.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- 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
- 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.
- unhandsomely — unattractively