12-letter words containing ha
- hand-holding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
- hand-launder — hand-wash.
- 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-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- hand-running — in unbroken succession; consecutively.
- 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.
- hand-to-hand — close to one's adversary; at close quarters: hand-to-hand combat.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
- handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
- handcraftman — handicraftsman.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- handwringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hang gliding — the sport of launching oneself from a cliff or a steep incline and soaring through the air by means of a hang glider.
- hang-gliding — Hang-gliding is the activity of flying in a hang-glider.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- 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
- happenchance — happenstance.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- happy camper — Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
- happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- happy-clappy — of or denoting a form of evangelical Christianity in which members of the congregation sing and clap enthusiastically during acts of worship
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
- 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 done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hard feeling — resentment; ill will