12-letter words containing a, n, h, y
- gigantomachy — (in Greek mythology) the struggle between the gods and the giants.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hardy annual — a plant that can withstand freezing temperatures and which completes its life cycle within a year
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
- heavy-handed — oppressive; harsh: a heavy-handed master.
- hedge laying — the art or practice of making or maintaining a hedge by cutting branches partway through, laying them horizontally, and pegging them in position in order to create a strong thick hedge
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- henry tanner — Henry Ossawa [os-uh-wuh] /ˈɒs ə wə/ (Show IPA), 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- high and dry — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
- homodynamous — (biology) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
- honey badger — ratel.
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
- hooray henry — a young upper-class man, often with affectedly hearty voice and manners
- horizontally — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- huayna capac — c1450–1527? Inca ruler of Peru 1493?–1527? (father of Atahualpa and Huascar).
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- 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.
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.