12-letter words containing h, g, e
- tollgatherer — a person who collects tolls, taxes, or other imposts.
- torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
- twenty-eight — a cardinal number, 20 plus 8.
- unaffrighted — to frighten.
- unchallenged — a euphemism for disabled (usually preceded by an adverb): physically challenged.
- unchangeable — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- unchargeable — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
- undelightful — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- unfrightened — not frightened
- unhesitating — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unrefreshing — not refreshing, rejuvenating, or invigorating
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- village hall — function venue in small community
- wagon-headed — of the form of a round arch or a semicylinder, like the cover of a wagon when stretched over the bows, as a ceiling or roof.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- waltz-length — having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
- wearing thin — If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone.
- weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
- weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
- weathertight — secure against wind, rain, etc.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- wedge-heeled — having a wedge heel
- wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
- weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
- weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
- weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
- weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
- well-weighed — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- wet strength — the relative resistance of paper to tearing when wet, resulting from the addition of resins during manufacture.