12-letter words containing s, e, t, h
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
- headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- health salts — magnesium sulphate or similar salts taken as a mild laxative
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- health stamp — a postage stamp with a surcharge that is used to support a health camp
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
- heartstopper — something so frightening or emotionally gripping as to make one's heart seem to stop beating: We didn't crash, but it was a heartstopper.
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- helianthuses — Plural form of helianthus.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- helmet shell — a predatory marine gastropod of the family Cassidae, characterized by a thick, heavy shell with a broadened outer lip.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
- hemiscotosis — hemianopsia.
- hemstitching — Present participle of hemstitch.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- henotheistic — Relating to henotheism.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- here to stay — If you say that something is here to stay, you mean that people have accepted it and it has become a part of everyday life.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heterauxesis — an unequal or asymmetrical growth of cells, parts of plants or animals
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- 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.
- heterodoxies — Plural form of heterodoxy.