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12-letter words containing h, i, e, r, a, t

  • extrahepatic — Originating or occurring outside the liver.
  • fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
  • faith healer — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
  • faith-healer — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
  • farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
  • farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
  • father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
  • fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
  • featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
  • featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
  • featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
  • fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
  • fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
  • fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
  • firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
  • foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
  • fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
  • freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
  • gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
  • garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
  • 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
  • giant hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
  • graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
  • 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.
  • hacker ethic — (philosophy)   1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • hair-trigger — easily activated or set off; reacting immediately to the slightest provocation or cause: a hair-trigger temper.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
  • hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
  • hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
  • handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
  • 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.
  • harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
  • harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest time — season when crops are gathered
  • headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
  • health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
  • hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
  • heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
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