11-letter words containing r, h, a, e
- hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half an ear — If you listen to something or someone with only half an ear, you do not give your full attention to what is being said.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half relief — mezzo-relievo.
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- half-frozen — extremely cold
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- half-yearly — Half-yearly means happening in the middle of a calendar year or a financial year.
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- hall porter — concierge
- haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
- halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
- hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
- hammer beam — a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hammer mill — a mill for breaking up ore or crushing coal.
- hammer pond — an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.
- hammercloth — a cloth covering for the driver's seat on a horse-drawn carriage.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hammersmith — a borough of Greater London, England.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hammerstone — an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hand-letter — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- hand-reared — (of an animal or bird) kept and looked after by a person, rather than by its mother, when young
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- harassments — Plural form of harassment.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.