12-letter words containing e, l, g, r
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.
- heffelfinger — William Walter ("Pudge") 1867–1954, U.S. football player.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- helical gear — a cylindrical gear wheel whose teeth follow the pitch surface in a helical manner.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- heliographer — (obsolete) Photographer.
- heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hellgrammite — the aquatic larva of a dobsonfly, used as bait in fishing.
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- hemorheology — The science of the rheological (especially flow) properties of the blood.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
- hieroglyphic — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- higher still — a system of post-Standard Grade qualifications offered at five levels including Higher and Advanced Higher
- highlighters — Plural form of highlighter.
- highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hydroecology — The study of support systems in wetlands such as the interactions between water and wildlife habitats.
- hydrogeology — the science dealing with the occurrence and distribution of underground water.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hyperalgesia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hyperlinking — Present participle of hyperlink.
- hyperlogical — reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind: logical thinking.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
- in-goal area — the area between the goal-line and the dead-ball line
- incorrigible — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.