12-letter words containing t, e, n, r, h
- heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
- heterokontan — of or relating to a heterokont
- 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).
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hidradenitis — (medicine) inflammation of the sweat glands.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hinterlander — One who lives in the hinterland.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- honor system — a system whereby the students at a school, the inmates in a prison, etc., are put on their honor to observe certain rules in order to minimize administrative supervision or to promote honesty.
- horatian ode — an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form.
- horn antenna — a microwave aerial, formed by flaring out the end of a waveguide
- horse nettle — a large, prickly North American weed, Solanum carolinense, of the nightshade family, having violet to white flowers in a few clusters.
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- 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.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- hunter green — a dark green color of yellowish cast.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hypergenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hyperintense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- hypersthenia — abnormal strength or tension
- hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- hypnotherapy — treatment of a symptom, disease, or addiction by means of hypnotism.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman