12-letter words containing s, h
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hagia sophia — flourished 6th century a.d, Byzantine engineer. He was one of the architects of Hagia Sophia; (originally an Orthodox cathedral and currently a museum in Istanbul, Turkey).
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- hair stylist — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hair-raising — terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.
- hairdressers — Plural form of hairdresser.
- hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
- hairlessness — The condition or quality of being hairless.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hairstylists — Plural form of hairstylist.
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-dressed — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- half-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- half-glasses — a pair of eyeglasses, often shaped like the lower half of regular eyeglasses, containing lenses to aid in reading and not suitable for distance vision.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
- halton hills — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, near Toronto.
- hamantaschen — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- hamarthritis — a swollen and painful condition that can affect all the joints
- 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.
- hamstringing — Present participle of hamstring.
- hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
- hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hanging post — a post from which a door, gate, etc., is hung.
- hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- hansom (cab) — a 19th-cent. two-wheeled covered carriage for two passengers, pulled by one horse: the driver's seat is above and behind the cab
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hard pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.