12-letter words containing h, y, a
- graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
- grass hockey — field hockey.
- gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- habitability — capable of being inhabited.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- haematolyses — Plural form of haematolysis.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- hair stylist — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hairstylists — Plural form of hairstylist.
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
- half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- happy camper — Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
- happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- happy-clappy — of or denoting a form of evangelical Christianity in which members of the congregation sing and clap enthusiastically during acts of worship
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hardheadedly — In a hardheaded manner.
- hardy annual — a plant that can withstand freezing temperatures and which completes its life cycle within a year
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- hatchability — to bring forth (young) from the egg.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have it away — to have sexual intercourse
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- heart cherry — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heath family — the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.