12-letter words containing a, s, h, i, e, r
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- constraineth — Archaic third-person singular form of constrain.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- ellipsograph — an instrument that draws ellipses
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
- epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
- etherealizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of etherealize.
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- exhortations — Plural form of exhortation.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- freakishness — The characteristic or quality of being freakish.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- garnisheeing — Present participle of garnishee.
- garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
- gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
- gazetteerish — in the style of a gazetteer
- generalships — Plural form of generalship.
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- 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.