12-letter words containing t, o, u, r, e
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
- heteromerous — having or consisting of parts that differ in quality, number of elements, or the like: a heteromerous flower.
- 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).
- heterosexual — of, relating to, or exhibiting heterosexuality.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
- homothermous — (biology) warm-blooded.
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- house arrest — confinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail: He was under house arrest until the day of his trial.
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- 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.
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- 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).
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- 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.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- insurrection — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interclusion — the act of intercluding
- intercommune — to commune or converse together
- intercountry — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?