12-letter words containing t, i, o, u
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- honest injun — honestly (used to emphasize the truth of a statement).
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- 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
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- 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.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hypoeutectic — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- hypofunction — abnormally diminished function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hyposulphite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- ichthyofauna — the indigenous fish of a region.
- ichthyosaurs — Plural form of ichthyosaur.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- illaqueation — the act of ensnaring
- illumination — an act or instance of illuminating.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- illusionists — Plural form of illusionist.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- illustrators — Plural form of illustrator.
- illustratory — Serving to illustrate.
- immunisation — (British, immunology) alternative spelling of immunization.
- immunization — the fact or process of becoming immune, as against a disease.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- import quota — the maximum amount of a product that can be imported into a country within a given period of time
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- in our midst — among us
- in statu quo — in the state in which (anything was or is).
- 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.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- inaniloquent — Tending to speak inanely; loquacious; garrulous.
- inauguration — an act or ceremony of inaugurating.
- inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.