12-letter words containing t, a, r, s, n
- 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.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hamstringing — Present participle of hamstring.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- hardstanding — a hard surface on which cars, aircraft etc. may stand
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hidradenitis — (medicine) inflammation of the sweat glands.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- histrionical — (British) Alternative form of histrionic.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hypersthenia — abnormal strength or tension
- hypoplastron — the third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- immiseration — to make miserable.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impersonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impersonate.
- impersonator — a person who pretends to be another.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- importations — Plural form of importation.