12-letter words containing y, e, a
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hardheadedly — In a hardheaded manner.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have it away — to have sexual intercourse
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- heart cherry — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heath family — the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
- heavy-footed — clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.
- heavy-handed — oppressive; harsh: a heavy-handed master.
- heavyhearted — Sad.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hedge laying — the art or practice of making or maintaining a hedge by cutting branches partway through, laying them horizontally, and pegging them in position in order to create a strong thick hedge
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- hemodialyses — Plural form of hemodialysis.
- hemodialysis — dialysis of the blood, especially with an artificial kidney, for the removal of waste products.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- henry tanner — Henry Ossawa [os-uh-wuh] /ˈɒs ə wə/ (Show IPA), 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- hepatoxicity — Toxicity that affects the liver.
- heptahydrate — a hydrate that contains seven molecules of water, as magnesium sulfate, MgSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O.
- heraldically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- 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.
- hereditarily — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterogamety — the condition or state of being heterogametic
- heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
- heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.