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12-letter words containing a, g, o

  • highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.
  • hippophagist — a person who eats horseflesh.
  • hippophagous — eating horse meat
  • histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • histological — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
  • hold against — resent sb for sth
  • holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
  • hollingshead — Holinshed.
  • home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
  • home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
  • homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
  • homologation — to approve; confirm or ratify.
  • homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
  • honey badger — ratel.
  • hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
  • horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
  • horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
  • hot swapping — (hardware)   The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
  • house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
  • hua guo feng — 1921–2008, Chinese Communist statesman; prime minister of China 1976–80
  • human genome — genetic code of human beings
  • hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
  • hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
  • hydrographer — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
  • hydrographic — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
  • hydrological — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
  • hydroplaning — a seaplane.
  • hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
  • hygrographic — of or relating to a hygrograph
  • hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
  • hyperlogical — reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind: logical thinking.
  • hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
  • hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
  • hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
  • hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
  • hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
  • hypophrygian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the fourth of the eight scales
  • hypsographic — a branch of geography that deals with the measurement and mapping of the topography of the earth above sea level.
  • iambographer — a person who writes iambs
  • iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
  • ichthyophagy — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
  • iconological — Of or pertaining to iconology.
  • ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
  • illogicality — illogic.
  • immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
  • imogene cocaImogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
  • impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
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