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

  • hand-running — in unbroken succession; consecutively.
  • harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
  • harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
  • harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • 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.
  • hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
  • hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
  • herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • 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.
  • high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
  • hill country — hilly area
  • hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
  • hippocentaur — Centaur.
  • holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
  • honorius iii — (Cencio Savelli) died 1227, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1216–27.
  • honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
  • horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
  • house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
  • 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.
  • hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
  • hudson riverHenry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
  • human rights — basic civil freedoms
  • human safari — an organized tour that takes tourists to unfamiliar places where they can observe the lifestyle of indigenous or other local people: human safaris to remote tribal communities; a human safari through the slums of Mumbai.
  • humanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
  • hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
  • 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.
  • hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
  • hydroquinone — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 2 , formed by the reduction of quinone: used chiefly in photography and to inhibit autoxidation reactions.
  • in honour of — If something is arranged in honour of a particular event, it is arranged in order to celebrate that event.
  • 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.
  • ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
  • inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
  • inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
  • interborough — between boroughs.
  • interwrought — having been interworked
  • isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
  • joint author — a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another
  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
  • latin church — the Roman Catholic Church.
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
  • monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
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