12-letter words containing a, t, h, e, o
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- hammer throw — a field event in which the hammer is thrown for distance.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- harmonometer — the equipment used for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds
- harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- have a go at — attack verbally
- have got sth — You use have got to say that someone has a particular thing, or to mention a quality or characteristic that someone or something has. In informal American English, people sometimes just use 'got'.
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- have need to — to be compelled or required to; must
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- hazelnut oil — an oil extracted from hazelnuts and used mostly in cooking
- head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- head station — the main buildings on a large sheep or cattle farm
- head-to-head — in direct confrontation, opposition, or competition: a head-to-head battle between the two companies.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- heart of oak — a brave person
- hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
- heartstopper — something so frightening or emotionally gripping as to make one's heart seem to stop beating: We didn't crash, but it was a heartstopper.
- heavy-footed — clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.
- heel-and-toe — noting a pace, as in walking contests, in which the heel of the front foot touches ground before the toes of the rear one leave it.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hemangiomata — See under angioma.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- hematochezia — the passage of bloody stools.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hepatization — the transformation of tissue into a liver-like substance, esp of the lungs in pneumonia
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- hepatoxicity — Toxicity that affects the liver.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- here to stay — If you say that something is here to stay, you mean that people have accepted it and it has become a part of everyday life.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.