12-letter words containing r, h, i, n
- high-scoring — (of a football etc match) in which a lot of goals are scored
- hiking trail — a specially designated route for hikers to use
- hill country — hilly area
- hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hinterlander — One who lives in the hinterland.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
- hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- his and hers — (of paired objects) for a man and woman respectively
- 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.
- honorius iii — (Cencio Savelli) died 1227, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1216–27.
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- horatian ode — an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form.
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- horizontally — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- horn in (on) — to intrude or meddle (in)
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- horse marine — (formerly) a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman doing duty on shipboard.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- horseshoeing — Present participle of horseshoe.
- 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.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- human safari — an organized tour that takes tourists to unfamiliar places where they can observe the lifestyle of indigenous or other local people: human safaris to remote tribal communities; a human safari through the slums of Mumbai.
- humanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- 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.
- hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
- hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
- hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.