12-letter words containing r, h, g
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- rephotograph — to photograph again
- replenishing — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- reprographer — a perspm who engages in reprography
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- restrengthen — to strengthen again or return to strength
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- rhinorrhagia — an extreme nosebleed
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- rhodes grass — a grass, Chloris gayana, native to Africa, used as pasturage and fodder in warm climates.
- rhyming game — a game played using rhyme
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
- right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
- right-winger — If you think someone has views which are more right-wing than most other members of their party, you can say they are a right-winger.
- rights issue — Finance; offering of new shares to existing holders
- rim lighting — backlighting.
- ring changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
- ring machine — a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.
- rising hinge — a gravity hinge causing a door, shutter, etc., to rise slightly when opened.
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- romp through — If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily.
- rough collie — a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- roughhousing — the act of behaving in a boisterous or rough way
- running hand — script or calligraphy characterized by uniformly slanted letters that are written quickly and connected by long, continuous strokes of the pen.
- running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
- running shoe — trainer, sneaker
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- rush through — If you rush something through, you deal with it quickly so that it is ready in a shorter time than usual.
- rust-through — an act or instance of rusting: The body of the car is protected against rust-through.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- saprophagous — (of an organism) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
- schreinering — to produce a lustrous finish on (a fabric) by subjecting it to pressure exerted by rollers engraved with many fine lines.
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- scutch grass — Bermuda grass.