12-letter words containing r, o, t, h, i
- frighten off — scare away
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
- ghost shrimp — a shrimplike crustacean of the genus Callianassa, of the Pacific coast of North America, having a pinkish, transparent body.
- 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.
- go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- goliath frog — the largest living frog, Rana goliath, which occurs in the Congo region of Africa and can grow to a length of 30 centimetres
- gothic armor — white armor of the 15th century, marked especially by much fluting and ornamentation.
- grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- graphologist — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- 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.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliocentric — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemimorphite — a hydrous zinc silicate mineral, Zn 4 (OH) 2 Si 2 O 7 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in clear, colorless orthorhombic crystals; calamine: an ore of zinc.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heroic tenor — a tenor with a dramatic voice
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroclitic — (linguistics) In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include '*wod-r/n-'
- heterocyclic — of or relating to the branch of chemistry dealing with cyclic compounds in which at least one of the ring members is not a carbon atom (contrasted with homocyclic).
- heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heteroleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having two or more types of ligand.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- heterophilic — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.