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12-letter words containing h, a, u

  • hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
  • hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
  • hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
  • hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
  • hand luggage — carry-on baggage
  • hand-launder — hand-wash.
  • hand-running — in unbroken succession; consecutively.
  • 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.
  • hardy annual — a plant that can withstand freezing temperatures and which completes its life cycle within a year
  • harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
  • harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
  • harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
  • harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • harum-scarum — reckless; rash; irresponsible: He had a harum-scarum youth.
  • 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
  • hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
  • 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
  • hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
  • hematogenous — originating in the blood.
  • hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
  • hepatogenous — originating in the liver
  • herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
  • hesse-nassau — a former state in W Germany, now part of Hesse.
  • heterauxesis — an unequal or asymmetrical growth of cells, parts of plants or animals
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