12-letter words containing a, s, h, e, r
- gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
- gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
- grass hockey — field hockey.
- grass shears — large scissors for cutting grass
- grasshoppers — Plural form of grasshopper.
- gravenhages' — a Dutch name of The Hague.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemorrhages — Plural form of haemorrhage.
- haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- hairdressers — Plural form of hairdresser.
- hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
- hairlessness — The condition or quality of being hairless.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-dressed — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hard pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
- hard-pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hare krishna — a religious sect based on Vedic scriptures, whose followers engage in joyful congregational chanting of Krishna's name: founded in the U.S. in 1966.
- harmlessness — The characteristic of being harmless; the absence of harm.
- harness race — a trotting or pacing race for Standardbred horses harnessed to sulkies.