12-letter words containing r, h, e, m, i
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- heterosexism — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- hit the mark — to achieve one's aim; be successful in one's attempt
- holidaymaker — vacationer.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homeomorphic — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
- homeothermic — (biology, of an, animal) Capable of maintaining a relatively constant body temperature independent of the surrounding environment.
- homoiotherms — Plural form of homoiotherm.
- homoiothermy — having a body temperature that is relatively constant and mostly independent of the temperature of the environment; warm-blooded (opposed to poikilothermic).
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- horse marine — (formerly) a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman doing duty on shipboard.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- hyperchromic — (physics, chemistry) Describing an increase in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the molecular environment.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperendemic — manifesting a high and persistent occurrence
- hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperlipemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
- hyperlipemic — characterized by an excessive level of fat in the blood
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hyperthermia — Pathology. abnormally high fever.
- hyperthermic — Having a very high body temperature.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- impoverisher — Someone who impoverishes.
- impoverishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impoverish.
- in the frame — If someone is in the frame for something such as a job or position, they are being considered for it.
- inkhorn term — an obscure, affectedly or ostentatiously erudite borrowing from another language, especially Latin or Greek.