12-letter words containing r, e, s, t
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- great vassal — (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a king to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- grotesquerie — Grotesque quality or grotesque things collectively.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gutter press — press specializing in sensationalism
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
- headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
- heartstopper — something so frightening or emotionally gripping as to make one's heart seem to stop beating: We didn't crash, but it was a heartstopper.
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.