12-letter words containing y, o, u, n
- 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.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- hill country — hilly area
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homodynamous — (biology) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
- homonymously — in a homonymous manner
- 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.
- host country — nation staging an international event
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- 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.
- hypofunction — abnormally diminished function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
- ichthyofauna — the indigenous fish of a region.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.
- incautiously — In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- inclusionary — (of zoning, housing programs, etc.) stipulating that a certain percentage of new housing will be priced within the reach of middle-income buyers or renters.
- incommutably — In an incommutable manner.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- incongruency — Incongruence.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- ineloquently — Without eloquence.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
- iniquitously — In an iniquitous manner.
- injury-prone — often sustaining injuries
- insolubility — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insouciantly — free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.
- intercountry — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- introductory — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- iron foundry — ironworks, forgery
- john mauchly — (person) /jon W mok'*-lee/ (rhymes with "broccoli") Dr. John W. Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC.
- johnny house — Johnny (def 3).
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- laundry room — utility room