12-letter words containing h, a, o, r
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hard-favored — South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
- hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- hark back to — recall: earlier era
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- harmonometer — the equipment used for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds
- harold stark — Harold Raynsford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- havana brown — a breed of medium-sized cat with large eyes, large ears, and a sleek brown coat
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- heart of oak — a brave person
- hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
- heartstopper — something so frightening or emotionally gripping as to make one's heart seem to stop beating: We didn't crash, but it was a heartstopper.
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- 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.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hemorrhoidal — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)