12-letter words containing t, r, u, o
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- host country — nation staging an international event
- 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.
- 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.
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- 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).
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- ichthyosaurs — Plural form of ichthyosaur.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- illustrators — Plural form of illustrator.
- illustratory — Serving to illustrate.
- import quota — the maximum amount of a product that can be imported into a country within a given period of time
- in our midst — among us
- 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.
- inauguration — an act or ceremony of inaugurating.
- inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.
- incorruption — the quality or condition of being incorrupt.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- incrustation — an incrusting or being incrusted.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- innutritious — (of food) lacking in nutrients; not nourishing.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inquartation — (in assaying) the addition of silver to a gold-silver alloy in order to facilitate the parting of the gold by nitric acid.
- instauration — renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
- instructions — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- 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?
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.