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12-letter words containing n, o, i, r

  • hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
  • hire company — a company that hires things out to people
  • histrionical — (British) Alternative form of histrionic.
  • holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
  • holy trinity — Trinity (def 1).
  • hominy grits — grits (def 1).
  • homoromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the same gender.
  • honor bright — upon my honor; really and truly: I did sweep the floor, honor bright.
  • honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
  • honorius iii — (Cencio Savelli) died 1227, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1216–27.
  • honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
  • horatian ode — an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form.
  • horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
  • horizontally — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
  • horn in (on) — to intrude or meddle (in)
  • horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
  • horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
  • horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
  • horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
  • horse marine — (formerly) a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman doing duty on shipboard.
  • horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
  • horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
  • horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
  • horseshoeing — Present participle of horseshoe.
  • 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.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
  • hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
  • hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
  • hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
  • hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
  • hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
  • hydroforming — the production of high-octane aromatic compounds for motor fuels by catalytic reforming of naphthas in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hydrogen ion — ionized hydrogen of the form H + , found in aqueous solutions of all acids.
  • hydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrogenize.
  • hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
  • hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
  • hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
  • hydronically — in a hydronic manner; in a manner relating to a heating system that uses water
  • hydroplaning — a seaplane.
  • hydroquinone — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 2 , formed by the reduction of quinone: used chiefly in photography and to inhibit autoxidation reactions.
  • hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
  • hydroxyl ion — hydroxide ion
  • hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
  • hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
  • hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
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