12-letter words containing h, a, t, r, e
- great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
- greater than — (character) ">" ASCII character 62. Common names: ITU-T: greater than; ket ("<" = bra); right angle; right angle bracket; right broket. Rare: into, toward; write to; blow ("<" = suck); gozinta; out; zap (all from Unix I/O redirection); INTERCAL: right angle. See also less than.
- greathearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hacker ethic — (philosophy) 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hair-trigger — easily activated or set off; reacting immediately to the slightest provocation or cause: a hair-trigger temper.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half leather — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-hearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- half-leather — half binding.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotolerant — (biology) Able to tolerate a high concentration of salt in its environment.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- hammer throw — a field event in which the hammer is thrown for distance.
- hand leather — a piece of leather wrapped around the hand of a shoemaker in order to protect it from being cut while pulling thread
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- hard-hearted — unfeeling; unmerciful; pitiless.
- hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- 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.
- harmonometer — the equipment used for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- have a heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- 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.
- head teacher — A head teacher is a teacher who is in charge of a school.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
- headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health