12-letter words containing h, o, n, r, i, g
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- griffin-hood — (in India and the East) a newcomer, especially a white person from a Western country.
- gyro horizon — artificial horizon (def 3).
- haircoloring — dye or tint for the hair.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
- high-rolling — gambling, spending, or living extravagantly or recklessly: high-rolling gamblers; a high-rolling investor.
- high-scoring — (of a football etc match) in which a lot of goals are scored
- hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- honor bright — upon my honor; really and truly: I did sweep the floor, honor bright.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- horseshoeing — Present participle of horseshoe.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
- hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
- hydroforming — the production of high-octane aromatic compounds for motor fuels by catalytic reforming of naphthas in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrogen ion — ionized hydrogen of the form H + , found in aqueous solutions of all acids.
- hydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrogenize.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hypophrygian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the fourth of the eight scales
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- in the gross — in bulk; as a whole
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- interborough — between boroughs.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).