12-letter words containing y, e, u
- greek yogurt — a thick, creamy, protein-rich yogurt made by removing most of the liquid whey, as by centrifuge or straining.
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- grey gurnard — a species of scorpionfish, Eutriglia gurnardus
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homosexually — In a homosexual way.
- 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.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- how are you? — what is your state of health?
- how dare you — You say 'how dare you' when you are very shocked and angry about something that someone has done.
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- humourlessly — Alternative spelling of humorlessly.
- 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.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- 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.
- 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.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperarousal — A state of heightened psychological and physiological tension resulting in reduced pain tolerance, anxiety, excessive response to sensory stimulation, insomnia, and fatigue.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- hypertextual — Of or relating to hypertext.
- hypoeutectic — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- hyposulphate — a salt derived from hyposulphuric acid
- hyposulphite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- immaculately — free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.