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12-letter words containing s, h, u, t, o

  • hohenstaufen — a member of the royal family that ruled in Germany from 1138 to 1208 and from 1215 to 1254, and in Sicily from 1194 to 1266.
  • holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
  • holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
  • 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.
  • homothermous — (biology) warm-blooded.
  • honest injun — honestly (used to emphasize the truth of a statement).
  • honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
  • honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
  • host country — nation staging an international event
  • house arrest — confinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail: He was under house arrest until the day of his trial.
  • house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
  • house hunter — a person who house-hunts
  • house lights — lights of a residential building
  • house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
  • housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
  • housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
  • housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
  • housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
  • housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
  • housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
  • humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
  • humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
  • hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
  • hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
  • hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
  • hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
  • hyposulphate — a salt derived from hyposulphuric acid
  • hyposulphite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
  • hypothalamus — a region of the brain, between the thalamus and the midbrain, that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc., and that acts as an endocrine gland by producing hormones, including the releasing factors that control the hormonal secretions of the pituitary gland.
  • ichthyosaurs — Plural form of ichthyosaur.
  • idiothermous — warm-blooded
  • inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
  • isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
  • james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
  • jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
  • just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
  • katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
  • kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
  • last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
  • leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
  • litholatrous — of or relating to the worship of stones
  • lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
  • lithophilous — (of animals and plants) inhabiting or growing in stony places
  • lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
  • little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
  • loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
  • loutrophoros — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a water jar, characterized by an elongated neck and flaring mouth, used to carry water for the marriage bath and set on the tomb of a person who had been unmarried.
  • meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
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