12-letter words containing m, u, h
- housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
- housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- hug-me-tight — a woman's short, warm, close-fitting jacket, usually knitted or crocheted and often sleeveless.
- huggermugger — Alternative form of hugger-mugger.
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- human safari — an organized tour that takes tourists to unfamiliar places where they can observe the lifestyle of indigenous or other local people: human safaris to remote tribal communities; a human safari through the slums of Mumbai.
- 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.
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- humification — the formation of humus.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- humorousness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
- humourlessly — Alternative spelling of humorlessly.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- huntsmanship — The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
- hupokeimenon — (philosophy) That which underlies, or lies beneath; substratum.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypothalamus — a region of the brain, between the thalamus and the midbrain, that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc., and that acts as an endocrine gland by producing hormones, including the releasing factors that control the hormonal secretions of the pituitary gland.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- john mauchly — (person) /jon W mok'*-lee/ (rhymes with "broccoli") Dr. John W. Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- jump the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- karnaugh map — A Karnaugh map is a pictorial method used to minimize Boolean expressions without having to use Boolean algebra theorems.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
- lithium lick — NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!"
- 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