12-letter words containing s, l, u, h
- gamophyllous — having leaves united by their edges.
- ghoulishness — The quality of being ghoulish.
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- 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.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- has no equal — If you say that someone or something has no equal, you think that there is nothing that is as good as them or that reaches the same standard.
- hautes-alpes — a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- helianthuses — Plural form of helianthus.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- heliophilous — attracted to sunlight
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
- heterosexual — of, relating to, or exhibiting heterosexuality.
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hobblebushes — Plural form of hobblebush.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homonymously — in a homonymous manner
- homosexually — In a homosexual way.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- householders — Plural form of householder.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.