12-letter words containing u, n, h, e
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hand luggage — carry-on baggage
- hand-launder — hand-wash.
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- has no equal — If you say that someone or something has no equal, you think that there is nothing that is as good as them or that reaches the same standard.
- haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
- haute-vienne — a department in central France. 2145 sq. mi. (5555 sq. km). Capital: Limoges.
- hazelnut oil — an oil extracted from hazelnuts and used mostly in cooking
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- helianthemum — (botany) Any of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
- helianthuses — Plural form of helianthus.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- 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
- hesse-nassau — a former state in W Germany, now part of Hesse.
- 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.
- 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).
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- 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.
- hoisin sauce — a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- honest injun — honestly (used to emphasize the truth of a statement).
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.