12-letter words containing n, o, r, d, h
- ride herd on — a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- throw around — ideas, etc.: exchange, brainstorm
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
- thunderstone — any of various stones or fossils formerly thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
- thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
- time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
- unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- undernourish — to deprive of or fail to provide with nutrients essential for health and growth
- underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- unencroached — to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits; make gradual inroads: A dictatorship of the majority is encroaching on the rights of the individual.
- unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- unhydrolysed — not having undergone hydrolysis
- unorthodoxly — not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy; not orthodox: an unorthodox ideology.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- unroadworthy — not mechanically sound or suitable for use on the road
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- van der rohe — Ludwig Mies [luhd-wig meez,, mees] /ˈlʌd wɪg miz,, mis/ (Show IPA), Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.