12-letter words containing i, r, o, a, t, e
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
- heterophoria — a latent strabismus of one or both eyes.
- heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- heterotactic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- heterotopias — Plural form of heterotopia.
- hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hit the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- horatian ode — an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form.
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- horse trials — a competitive sporting event at which riders have to show their skill in dressage, show-jumping, and cross-country
- horse's tail — burro's tail.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- ill-assorted — badly matched; incompatible
- immiseration — to make miserable.
- immoderately — In an immoderate manner.
- immoderation — lack of moderation.
- immoralities — Plural form of immorality.
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- immortalized — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- immortalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immortalize.
- imperatorial — Commanding; authoritative.
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.