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12-letter words containing a, t, r, h, s

  • graphic arts — any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds
  • graphologist — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hair stylist — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hairstylists — Plural form of hairstylist.
  • half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • hamarthritis — a swollen and painful condition that can affect all the joints
  • hamstringing — Present participle of hamstring.
  • handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
  • handsbreadth — A small distance.
  • harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
  • hardstanding — a hard surface on which cars, aircraft etc. may stand
  • harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
  • harold stark — Harold Raynsford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
  • harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
  • harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
  • harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest time — season when crops are gathered
  • 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.
  • headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
  • headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
  • headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
  • headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
  • hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
  • heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
  • heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
  • 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.
  • heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
  • hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
  • hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
  • hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
  • hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
  • 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.
  • heterauxesis — an unequal or asymmetrical growth of cells, parts of plants or animals
  • heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
  • heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
  • heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
  • heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
  • heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
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