12-letter words containing u, r, t
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
- housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- humanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- hunter green — a dark green color of yellowish cast.
- 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.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypertextual — Of or relating to hypertext.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- ichthyosaurs — Plural form of ichthyosaur.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- illiterature — (archaic) Lack of learning; illiteracy.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- illustrators — Plural form of illustrator.
- illustratory — Serving to illustrate.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immaturities — Plural form of immaturity.
- imparticular — (proscribed) in particular.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- import quota — the maximum amount of a product that can be imported into a country within a given period of time
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- in miniature — on a smaller scale
- in our midst — among us
- in perpetuum — for ever
- 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.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- inaugurating — to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin: The end of World War II inaugurated the era of nuclear power.
- inauguration — an act or ceremony of inaugurating.
- inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.