12-letter words containing h, u, e, s
- honest injun — honestly (used to emphasize the truth of a statement).
- honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- 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 church — a group of Christians meeting for worship in a private house
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
- house prices — the sums in money for which houses may be bought or sold
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- housedresses — Plural form of housedress.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- householders — Plural form of householder.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- housekeepers — Plural form of housekeeper.
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- 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.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- humorousness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
- humourlessly — Alternative spelling of humorlessly.
- hundred days — the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hush puppies — a kind of shoe with soft leather or suede uppers
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.