12-letter words containing h, e, a, r, s, t
- feather star — a free-swimming crinoid.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
- garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
- gate-crasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- gatecrashers — Plural form of gatecrasher.
- gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
- gazetteerish — in the style of a gazetteer
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- 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
- 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).
- 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 scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- 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.
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).