12-letter words containing h, a, u, e
- grandaughter — Alternative spelling of granddaughter.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- guanethidine — a potent adrenergic neuron blocking agent, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- 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.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hand luggage — carry-on baggage
- hand-launder — hand-wash.
- happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- 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-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- has no equal — If you say that someone or something has no equal, you think that there is nothing that is as good as them or that reaches the same standard.
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- haute-vienne — a department in central France. 2145 sq. mi. (5555 sq. km). Capital: Limoges.
- hautes-alpes — a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- hazelnut oil — an oil extracted from hazelnuts and used mostly in cooking
- head lettuce — any variety of the lettuce subspecies Lactuca sativa capitata, having leaves that grow in a dense rosette, especially iceberg lettuce and Boston lettuce.
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- 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.
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- heart murmur — murmur (def 3).
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- height gauge — an object used to measure the height of somebody or something, for example to measure the height of people for medical purposes
- helianthemum — (botany) Any of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
- helianthuses — Plural form of helianthus.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion