12-letter words containing t, h, o
- 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
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- humification — the formation of humus.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- 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.
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.
- hydrometeors — Plural form of hydrometeor.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
- hydrostatics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the statics of fluids, usually confined to the equilibrium and pressure of liquids.
- 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).
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hydroxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of hydroxylate.
- hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
- hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
- hypercorrect — overly correct; excessively fastidious; fussy: hypercorrect manners.
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hypermetropy — Dated form of hypermetropia.
- hyperostosis — abnormal development of bony tissue.
- hyperreactor — a person who behaves in a hyperreactive manner