12-letter words containing e, g, h, a, d
- hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.
- hedge laying — the art or practice of making or maintaining a hedge by cutting branches partway through, laying them horizontally, and pegging them in position in order to create a strong thick hedge
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- herd's-grass — timothy or redtop, used for hay or pasture.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- 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.
- 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.
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- 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.
- hydrographer — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- large-handed — generous; profuse
- largehearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- 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.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- on the cadge — engaged in cadging
- parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- pudding-head — a stupid person
- radiographer — X-ray technician
- read-through — reading (def 1).
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- rhodes grass — a grass, Chloris gayana, native to Africa, used as pasturage and fodder in warm climates.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals