12-letter words containing a, w, h
- go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
- graham wafer — a cracker intended to aid digestion.
- graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
- grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- guangzhouwan — a former French-leased territory (1898–1945) on the SW coast of Guangdong province, in S China. About 190 sq. mi. (490 sq. km).
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- half-forward — any of three forwards positioned between the centre line and the forward line
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hammer throw — a field event in which the hammer is thrown for distance.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- handwringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- hanging pawn — one of two or more adjacent pawns on central half-open files with no pawns of the same colour on the files immediately to left and right of them
- hanging wall — Mining. the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare footwall (def 1).
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- hard-wearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- havana brown — a breed of medium-sized cat with large eyes, large ears, and a sleek brown coat
- have it away — to have sexual intercourse
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- here and now — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- hideaway bed — a sofa, loveseat, etc., that can be converted into a bed, usually by folding out a concealed mattress and springs.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.
- hill walking — the activity of walking through hilly country for pleasure
- hit the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.