12-letter words containing h, e, r
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- hard-wearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hardheadedly — In a hardheaded manner.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hare krishna — a religious sect based on Vedic scriptures, whose followers engage in joyful congregational chanting of Krishna's name: founded in the U.S. in 1966.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
- 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.
- harlem river — tidal river separating Manhattan Island from the Bronx &, with Spuyten Duyvil Creek, connecting the East River with the Hudson: c. 8 mi (12.9 km)
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- harmlessness — The characteristic of being harmless; the absence of harm.
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- harmonometer — the equipment used for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds
- harness race — a trotting or pacing race for Standardbred horses harnessed to sulkies.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
- 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
- hasenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- hash-slinger — a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- 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.
- have a nerve — If you say that someone has a nerve or has the nerve to do something, you are criticizing them for doing something which you feel they had no right to do.
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- 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 sherang — the boss; person in authority
- head teacher — A head teacher is a teacher who is in charge of a school.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
- 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.
- headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- heart attack — damage to an area of heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to blockage of a diseased coronary artery, typically accompanied by chest pain radiating down one or both arms, the severity of the attack varying with the extent and location of the damage; myocardial infarction.
- heart cherry — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.