12-letter words containing u, n, h, o
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- hill country — hilly area
- 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.
- hologonidium — soredium.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homochronous — (of a genetic character) occurring at the same age or period in the offspring as in the parent.
- homodynamous — (biology) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- homonymously — in a homonymous manner
- 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.
- honorius iii — (Cencio Savelli) died 1227, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1216–27.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- host country — nation staging an international event
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hua guo feng — 1921–2008, Chinese Communist statesman; prime minister of China 1976–80
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humification — the formation of humus.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- humorousness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
- hung up (on) — emotionally disturbed (by); neurotic, repressed, etc.