12-letter words containing u, n, r, s, h
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- 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.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- 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.
- 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
- 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).
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- homochronous — (of a genetic character) occurring at the same age or period in the offspring as in the parent.
- honorius iii — (Cencio Savelli) died 1227, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1216–27.
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- 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.
- 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 river — Henry, 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.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- humorousness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
- hundred days — the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.