12-letter words containing h, e, r, t, o
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- 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.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliocentric — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemimorphite — a hydrous zinc silicate mineral, Zn 4 (OH) 2 Si 2 O 7 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in clear, colorless orthorhombic crystals; calamine: an ore of zinc.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- here to stay — If you say that something is here to stay, you mean that people have accepted it and it has become a part of everyday life.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heroic tenor — a tenor with a dramatic voice
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- heterocercal — having an unequally divided tail, characteristic of sharks, rays, and skates.
- heterochrome — heterochromatic.
- heterochrony — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroclitic — (linguistics) In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include '*wod-r/n-'
- heterocyclic — of or relating to the branch of chemistry dealing with cyclic compounds in which at least one of the ring members is not a carbon atom (contrasted with homocyclic).
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.