12-letter words containing n, a, o, g
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
- heilongjiang — a province in NE China, S of the Amur River. 108,880 sq. mi. (281,999 sq. km). Capital: Harbin.
- hemangiomata — See under angioma.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- hexaflexagon — A hexagonal flexagon.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
- high fashion — haute couture.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homologation — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- honey badger — ratel.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- 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.
- hua guo feng — 1921–2008, Chinese Communist statesman; prime minister of China 1976–80
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- hypophrygian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the fourth of the eight scales
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
- iconological — Of or pertaining to iconology.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
- implantology — the branch of dentistry dealing with the permanent implantation or attachment of artificial teeth in the jaw.