12-letter words containing d, e, l, a, r
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-dressed — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- half-hearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hammer drill — a rock drill operated by compressed air in which the boring bit is not attached to the reciprocating piston
- hand leather — a piece of leather wrapped around the hand of a shoemaker in order to protect it from being cut while pulling thread
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hand-launder — hand-wash.
- hard feeling — resentment; ill will
- hardheadedly — In a hardheaded manner.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hemorrhoidal — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- heraldically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- hereditarily — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- hexachloride — a chloride containing six atoms of chlorine.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
- hinterlander — One who lives in the hinterland.
- holidaymaker — vacationer.
- horse-dealer — a person who buys and sells horses as a profession
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydrocephaly — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- hydroxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of hydroxylate.
- hyperdactyly — the presence of extra fingers or toes.