12-letter words containing o, t, h, e, r, i
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
- frighten off — scare away
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- 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.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- 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.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliocentric — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- 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.
- hemimorphite — a hydrous zinc silicate mineral, Zn 4 (OH) 2 Si 2 O 7 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in clear, colorless orthorhombic crystals; calamine: an ore of zinc.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heroic tenor — a tenor with a dramatic voice
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroclitic — (linguistics) In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include '*wod-r/n-'
- heterocyclic — of or relating to the branch of chemistry dealing with cyclic compounds in which at least one of the ring members is not a carbon atom (contrasted with homocyclic).
- heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heteroleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having two or more types of ligand.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- heterophilic — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heterophoria — a latent strabismus of one or both eyes.
- heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- heterosexism — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
- heterosexist — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships