12-letter words containing g, i, o, r
- haircoloring — dye or tint for the hair.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- 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.
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- 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.
- hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
- hierographer — a writer of hierographs
- hierographic — of or relating to hierographs
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
- high-powered — extremely energetic, dynamic, and capable: high-powered executives.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
- high-rolling — gambling, spending, or living extravagantly or recklessly: high-rolling gamblers; a high-rolling investor.
- high-scoring — (of a football etc match) in which a lot of goals are scored
- high-wrought — highly agitated; overwrought.
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hippo regius — a seaport of ancient Numidia: St. Augustine was bishop here a.d. 395–430; the site of modern Annaba, in Algeria.
- hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- historiology — (obsolete) a discourse on history.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- honor bright — upon my honor; really and truly: I did sweep the floor, honor bright.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- 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.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.