12-letter words containing t, h, u, n
- highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hill country — hilly area
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- 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.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- honest injun — honestly (used to emphasize the truth of a statement).
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- 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 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.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- humification — the formation of humus.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- hunter green — a dark green color of yellowish cast.
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- 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.
- hunting pink — scarlet
- huntsmanship — The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hypofunction — abnormally diminished function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
- ichthyofauna — the indigenous fish of a region.
- in (the) bud — in the time of budding
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- in the nuddy — in the nude; naked
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- interborough — between boroughs.