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12-letter words containing i, n, h, u

  • fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
  • five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
  • flat-hunting — the activity of looking for a flat in which to live
  • flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
  • flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
  • fluphenazine — a potent tranquilizer, C 22 H 26 F 3 N 3 OS, derived from phenothiazine and used in various forms for the management of certain neurological or psychotic disorders and for short-term treatment of acute anxiety.
  • fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
  • four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
  • french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
  • furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
  • gainsboroughThomas, 1727–88, English painter.
  • get in touch — make contact
  • ghoulishness — The quality of being ghoulish.
  • guanethidine — a potent adrenergic neuron blocking agent, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
  • guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
  • gut-churning — nerve-wracking
  • gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
  • habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
  • hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
  • haji-ioannou — Sir Stelios. born 1967, British businessman, born in Greece; founder (1995) and chairman (until 2002) of the low-cost airline company Easyjet
  • half-turning — split spindle.
  • hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
  • hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
  • hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
  • hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
  • hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
  • hand-running — in unbroken succession; consecutively.
  • harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
  • harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
  • harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
  • haute-vienne — a department in central France. 2145 sq. mi. (5555 sq. km). Capital: Limoges.
  • hazelnut oil — an oil extracted from hazelnuts and used mostly in cooking
  • head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
  • heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
  • helianthemum — (botany) Any of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
  • helianthuses — Plural form of helianthus.
  • hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
  • hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
  • hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
  • herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
  • hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
  • higgs bugson — (humour)   A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
  • high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
  • highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hill country — hilly area
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