12-letter words containing e, g, r, s
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- herd's-grass — timothy or redtop, used for hay or pasture.
- hergesheimer — Joseph, 1880–1954, U.S. novelist.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high-stepper — seeking unrestrained pleasure, as by frequenting night clubs, parties, etc.; leading a wild and fast life: a high-stepping young crowd.
- higher apsis — See under apsis.
- higher still — a system of post-Standard Grade qualifications offered at five levels including Higher and Advanced Higher
- highlighters — Plural form of highlighter.
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- hippo regius — a seaport of ancient Numidia: St. Augustine was bishop here a.d. 395–430; the site of modern Annaba, in Algeria.
- hire charges — the amount of money it costs to hire something, such as a bike, car, etc
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- horseshoeing — Present participle of horseshoe.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hyperalgesia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hypergenesis — an origin, creation, or beginning.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- immiserising — immiserate.
- immiserizing — immiserate.
- in the gross — in bulk; as a whole
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.