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12-letter words containing a, r, g

  • havana cigar — any of various cigars hand rolled in Cuba, known esp for their high quality
  • hazard light — Usually, hazard lights. an indicator light on a vehicle that flashes to warn that it is unexpectedly slowing down, reversing, or not moving.
  • hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
  • head sherang — the boss; person in authority
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
  • hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
  • heartrending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
  • heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
  • heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
  • hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
  • hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.
  • heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
  • helical gear — a cylindrical gear wheel whose teeth follow the pitch surface in a helical manner.
  • helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
  • heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
  • heliographer — (obsolete) Photographer.
  • heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
  • heliogravure — photoengraving.
  • hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
  • hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
  • hellgrammite — the aquatic larva of a dobsonfly, used as bait in fishing.
  • hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
  • herd's-grass — timothy or redtop, used for hay or pasture.
  • herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
  • heterogamete — either of a pair of conjugating gametes differing in form, size, structure, or sex.
  • heterogamety — the condition or state of being heterogametic
  • heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
  • heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
  • heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
  • hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
  • hierographer — a writer of hierographs
  • hierographic — of or relating to hierographs
  • high and dry — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
  • high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
  • high-ranking — A high-ranking person has an important position in a particular organization.
  • higher apsis — See under apsis.
  • highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
  • hiking trail — a specially designated route for hikers to use
  • hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
  • hire charges — the amount of money it costs to hire something, such as a bike, car, etc
  • histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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