12-letter words containing h, o, u, r, e
- 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.
- unheroically — in an unheroic manner
- unhydrolysed — not having undergone hydrolysis
- 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.
- unoverthrown — not overthrown
- 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
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- upper school — a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- urethrectomy — excision or removal of part or all of the urethra.
- urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
- urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
- urethrostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the urethra through the perineum, permitting the passage of urine.
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- 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.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
- wherethrough — through which; because of
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
- 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, …).
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- youth leader — a person who has responsibility for the young people at a youth club etc
- youth worker — A youth worker is a person whose job involves providing support and social activities for young people, especially young people from poor backgrounds.