12-letter words containing h, i, e, r
- helmet liner — a soft or padded lining for a helmet.
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- hemapheresis — apheresis.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemimorphism — The condition of being hemimorphic.
- 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.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hemorrhoidal — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hephthemimer — a verse with a group of seven metrical half feet
- heraldically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- hereditament — any inheritable estate or interest in property.
- hereditarian — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
- hereditarily — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- hereinbefore — before in this document, statement, etc.
- hergesheimer — Joseph, 1880–1954, U.S. novelist.
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- heroic tenor — a tenor with a dramatic voice
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- heterauxesis — an unequal or asymmetrical growth of cells, parts of plants or animals
- 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).
- heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heteroleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having two or more types of ligand.