12-letter words containing e, d, g, h
- high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
- high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
- high-pitched — Music. played or sung at a high pitch.
- high-powered — extremely energetic, dynamic, and capable: high-powered executives.
- highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
- 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.
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- honey badger — ratel.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
- hydroecology — The study of support systems in wetlands such as the interactions between water and wildlife habitats.
- hydrogen ion — ionized hydrogen of the form H + , found in aqueous solutions of all acids.
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrogenize.
- hydrogeology — the science dealing with the occurrence and distribution of underground water.
- hydrographer — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- inside right — (esp formerly) a player having mainly midfield and attacking roles
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- irish bridge — a paved ford.
- ketch-rigged — rigged in the manner of a ketch.
- large-handed — generous; profuse
- largehearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
- light bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- loggerheaded — Dull; stupid.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- middle eight — the third contrasting eight-bar section of a 32-bar pop song
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- monohydrogen — relating to a molecule in which there is a single hydrogen ion for each combining ion
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- mythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.