12-letter words containing i, r, h, y
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- firth of tay — the estuary of the River Tay on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Length: 40 km (25 miles)
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- forthrightly — In a forthright manner.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- 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
- frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- gyro horizon — artificial horizon (def 3).
- hair stylist — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hairstylists — Plural form of hairstylist.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- 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
- hereditarily — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- 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).
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hieratically — In a hieratic way.
- hieroglyphic — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- high and dry — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.