12-letter words containing r, h, g
- time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
- time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
- togetherness — warm fellowship, as among members of a family.
- tollgatherer — a person who collects tolls, taxes, or other imposts.
- torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- tramping hut — a hut in the bush for the use of trampers
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
- trichogramma — any minute wasp of the genus Trichogramma, comprising a beneficial group of chalcidflies that parasitize the eggs of a variety of insect pests.
- trichologist — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
- unaffrighted — to frighten.
- unchargeable — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
- underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- unfrightened — not frightened
- unnourishing — not providing nourishment
- unrefreshing — not refreshing, rejuvenating, or invigorating
- unrightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- upright bass — double bass
- urban blight — deterioration of property in centre of city
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- virgin birth — Theology. the doctrine or dogma that, by the miraculous agency of God, the birth of Christ did not impair or prejudice the virginity of Mary. Compare Immaculate Conception.
- virginia ham — a ham from a hog fed on corn and peanuts, cured in hickory smoke.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- wearing thin — If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone.
- weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
- weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
- weathertight — secure against wind, rain, etc.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
- weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.