12-letter words containing h, e, r
- heart murmur — murmur (def 3).
- heart of oak — a brave person
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
- heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
- heartrending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- 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.).
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heat barrier — thermal barrier.
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- heavyhearted — Sad.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
- hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.
- heffelfinger — William Walter ("Pudge") 1867–1954, U.S. football player.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- helical gear — a cylindrical gear wheel whose teeth follow the pitch surface in a helical manner.
- helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliocentric — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- heliographer — (obsolete) Photographer.
- heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- helleborines — Plural form of helleborine.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hellgrammite — the aquatic larva of a dobsonfly, used as bait in fishing.
- hello, world — (programming) The canonical, minimal, first program that a programmer writes in a new programming language or development environment. The program just prints "hello, world" to standard output in order to verify that the programmer can successfully edit, compile and run a simple program before embarking on anything more challenging. Hello, world is the first example program in the C programming book, K&R, and the tradition has spread from there to pretty much every other language and many of their textbooks. Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered bad.
- helmet liner — a soft or padded lining for a helmet.
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
- help screens — computer instructions displayed on a visual display unit
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- hemapheresis — apheresis.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.