12-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- groundedness — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- gruesomeness — The characteristic or quality of being gruesome.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- half an hour — 30 minutes
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- 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
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heteronomous — subject to or involving different laws.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- hill country — hilly area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homochronous — (of a genetic character) occurring at the same age or period in the offspring as in the parent.
- honorius iii — (Cencio Savelli) died 1227, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1216–27.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- host country — nation staging an international event
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- 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
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.