12-letter words containing o, t, r, h, i, n
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
- hill country — hilly area
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- 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.
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- horatian ode — an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form.
- horizontally — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- 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.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- 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.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- 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.
- hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
- in the gross — in bulk; as a whole
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- incoherently — without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence.
- indricothere — a long-necked, long-legged, fossil mammal, Indricotherium transouralicum, related to the rhinoceros and existing 10 to 30 million years ago, possibly the largest and heaviest land mammal.
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- inkhorn term — an obscure, affectedly or ostentatiously erudite borrowing from another language, especially Latin or Greek.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- interwrought — having been interworked