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12-letter words containing u, n, h, i, t

  • neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.
  • neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
  • nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
  • nitrophilous — (of plants) growing in soil well supplied with nitrogen
  • northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
  • not with you — not able to grasp or follow what you are saying
  • nothing much — not a lot
  • nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
  • on the quiet — If something is done on the quiet, it is done secretly or in such a way that people do not notice it.
  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
  • orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
  • outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
  • outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
  • outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
  • outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
  • phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
  • phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
  • photoinduced — induced by light.
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
  • rabbit punch — a short, sharp blow to the nape of the neck or the lower part of the skull.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
  • sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • subhastation — a public auction or sale
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • the business — If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
  • the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
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