12-letter words containing o, l, d, h
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
- half a dozen — six
- half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- half-forward — any of three forwards positioned between the centre line and the forward line
- half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hammarskjold — Dag Hjalmar [dahg yahl-mahr] /dɑg ˈyɑl mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1905–61, Swedish statesman: Secretary General of the United Nations 1953–61; Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
- hand-holding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
- harold stark — Harold Raynsford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
- headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
- heel-and-toe — noting a pace, as in walking contests, in which the heel of the front foot touches ground before the toes of the rear one leave it.
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- hello, world — (programming) The canonical, minimal, first program that a programmer writes in a new programming language or development environment. The program just prints "hello, world" to standard output in order to verify that the programmer can successfully edit, compile and run a simple program before embarking on anything more challenging. Hello, world is the first example program in the C programming book, K&R, and the tradition has spread from there to pretty much every other language and many of their textbooks. Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered bad.
- hemodialyses — Plural form of hemodialysis.
- hemodialysis — dialysis of the blood, especially with an artificial kidney, for the removal of waste products.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
- hemophilioid — (of a disease) resembling hemophilia, but having a different genetic or acquired cause.
- 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)
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- heterostyled — (of a plant) having styles of different forms or lengths in the flowers.
- hexachloride — a chloride containing six atoms of chlorine.
- hexadecapole — (physics) Anything having sixteen poles or electrodes, or a combination of four quadrupoles.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
- his-lordship — (often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his or your).
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- hold out for — to wait patiently or uncompromisingly for (the fulfilment of one's demands)
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- holiday camp — In Britain, a holiday camp is a place which provides holiday accommodation and entertainment for large numbers of people.
- holiday home — a home that people own in order to holiday in and that is in a different location to the home they usually live in
- holidaymaker — vacationer.
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- hollywoodish — of, relating to, or resembling Hollywood, Hollywoodians, or the products of Hollywood and the motion-picture industry.
- hologonidium — soredium.