12-letter words containing h, u, e, r, t
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
- homothermous — (biology) warm-blooded.
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- house arrest — confinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail: He was under house arrest until the day of his trial.
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
- housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- hunter green — a dark green color of yellowish cast.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypertextual — Of or relating to hypertext.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- jesus christ — Jesus (def 1).
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- kletterschuh — a lightweight climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and Vibram (originally felt or cord) sole
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- lecture hall — conference room
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.