12-letter words containing w, h
- go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
- go whole hog — Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).
- graham wafer — a cracker intended to aid digestion.
- graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
- grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- guangzhouwan — a former French-leased territory (1898–1945) on the SW coast of Guangdong province, in S China. About 190 sq. mi. (490 sq. km).
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- 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
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hammer throw — a field event in which the hammer is thrown for distance.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- handwringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- hanging pawn — one of two or more adjacent pawns on central half-open files with no pawns of the same colour on the files immediately to left and right of them
- hanging wall — Mining. the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare footwall (def 1).
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- hard-wearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- havana brown — a breed of medium-sized cat with large eyes, large ears, and a sleek brown coat
- have it away — to have sexual intercourse
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- 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.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- here and now — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
- hideaway bed — a sofa, loveseat, etc., that can be converted into a bed, usually by folding out a concealed mattress and springs.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.