12-letter words containing g, c, h
- hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- helical gear — a cylindrical gear wheel whose teeth follow the pitch surface in a helical manner.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- hemstitching — Present participle of hemstitch.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- 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.
- hierographic — of or relating to hierographs
- high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
- high concept — a simple and often striking idea or premise, as of a story or film, that lends itself to easy promotion and marketing.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- high finance — large-scale financial transactions or institutions.
- high society — society (def 9).
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
- high-context — preferring to communicate in person, rather than by electronic methods such as email
- high-pitched — Music. played or sung at a high pitch.
- high-scoring — (of a football etc match) in which a lot of goals are scored
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- 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.
- hillclimbing — (sports) A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
- hire charges — the amount of money it costs to hire something, such as a bike, car, etc
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- histological — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- home cooking — home-made food
- homo-zygotic — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
- hydroecology — The study of support systems in wetlands such as the interactions between water and wildlife habitats.
- hydrographic — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- hydrological — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hygrographic — of or relating to a hygrograph
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hypergenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- 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.
- hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypoglycemic — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.