12-letter words containing y, u, r
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- 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
- groin injury — any injury to the groin area, esp suffered by a sports player
- 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.
- guilty party — the person or people responsible for an offence or misdeed
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- hardy annual — a plant that can withstand freezing temperatures and which completes its life cycle within a year
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- 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.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- hill country — hilly area
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- home country — the country a person comes from
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- host country — nation staging an international event
- hour by hour — each hour
- 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.
- 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.
- hungry puppy — Synonym slopsucker.
- hurry-scurry — headlong, disorderly haste; hurry and confusion.
- 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.
- hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
- 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).
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- 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.