12-letter words containing o, r, i, h, n
- ethnohistory — The branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- exheredation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
- exhilaration — A feeling of excitement, happiness, or elation.
- exhortations — Plural form of exhortation.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
- fishing worm — an earthworm.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
- 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— a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- frighten off — scare away
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- giant hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
- grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- griffin-hood — (in India and the East) a newcomer, especially a white person from a Western country.
- gyro horizon — artificial horizon (def 3).
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- haircoloring — dye or tint for the hair.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear