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12-letter words containing r, h, u, m

  • erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
  • ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
  • flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
  • fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
  • forasmuch as — since
  • frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
  • funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
  • furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
  • glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
  • good-humored — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
  • half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
  • hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
  • harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
  • harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
  • harum-scarum — reckless; rash; irresponsible: He had a harum-scarum youth.
  • haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • heart murmur — murmur (def 3).
  • helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
  • hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
  • herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
  • heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
  • heteromerous — having or consisting of parts that differ in quality, number of elements, or the like: a heteromerous flower.
  • heteronomous — subject to or involving different laws.
  • heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
  • hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
  • home country — the country a person comes from
  • homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
  • homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
  • homochromous — being all of one color, as a composite flower or flower head.
  • homochronous — (of a genetic character) occurring at the same age or period in the offspring as in the parent.
  • homothermous — (biology) warm-blooded.
  • horse manure — horse's excrement
  • house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
  • house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
  • housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
  • housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • huggermugger — Alternative form of hugger-mugger.
  • human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
  • humorousness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
  • humourlessly — Alternative spelling of humorlessly.
  • hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
  • hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
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