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12-letter words containing r, e, t, h, i

  • freethinking — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
  • freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
  • freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
  • freightliner — a train for transporting containerized freight.
  • french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
  • french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
  • french twist — French roll.
  • frighten off — scare away
  • frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
  • furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
  • gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
  • garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
  • gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
  • gazetteerish — in the style of a gazetteer
  • geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
  • german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
  • gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
  • get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
  • ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
  • ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
  • ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
  • giant hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
  • gift voucher — gift certificate.
  • goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
  • graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
  • great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
  • greenlighted — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
  • gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
  • gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
  • hacker ethic — (philosophy)   1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • hair-trigger — easily activated or set off; reacting immediately to the slightest provocation or cause: a hair-trigger temper.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
  • hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
  • hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
  • handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
  • haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
  • haricot vert — green bean.
  • harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
  • harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest time — season when crops are gathered
  • headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
  • health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
  • hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
  • heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
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