12-letter words containing r, o, d
- guelder-rose — a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- half-forward — any of three forwards positioned between the centre line and the forward line
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hammarskjold — Dag Hjalmar [dahg yahl-mahr] /dɑg ˈyɑl mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1905–61, Swedish statesman: Secretary General of the United Nations 1953–61; Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hard-favored — South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
- hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
- harold stark — Harold Raynsford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
- 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).
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- hello, world — (programming) The canonical, minimal, first program that a programmer writes in a new programming language or development environment. The program just prints "hello, world" to standard output in order to verify that the programmer can successfully edit, compile and run a simple program before embarking on anything more challenging. Hello, world is the first example program in the C programming book, K&R, and the tradition has spread from there to pretty much every other language and many of their textbooks. Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered bad.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hemorrhoidal — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- here and now — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- heterostyled — (of a plant) having styles of different forms or lengths in the flowers.
- hexachloride — a chloride containing six atoms of chlorine.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- hide or hair — the pelt or skin of one of the larger animals (cow, horse, buffalo, etc.), raw or dressed.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.