12-letter words containing r, o, s, e, h
- epimorphosis — a type of development in animals, such as certain insect larvae, in which segmentation of the body is complete before hatching
- eratosthenes — ?276–?194 bc, Greek mathematician and astronomer, who calculated the circumference of the earth by observing the angle of the sun's rays at different places
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- erythrocytes — Plural form of erythrocyte.
- ethnohistory — The branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- exhortations — Plural form of exhortation.
- export house — a company that does not manufacture goods but is instead concerned solely with the financing or handling of their export
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- feather shot — fine bean shot.
- fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forethoughts — Plural form of forethought.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- fresh out of — having just run out of supplies of
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
- general shop — a shop that sells various types of goods
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- 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.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
- gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).