12-letter words containing ha
- claw hatchet — a hatchet with a claw at one end of its head for extracting nails
- clean-handed — free from wrongdoing; guiltless.
- clean-shaven — If a man is clean-shaven, he does not have a beard or a moustache.
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- cliffhanging — Present participle of cliffhang.
- close-hauled — with the sails flat, so as to sail as close to the wind as possible
- close-shaven — (of hair) cut very short
- closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- cochairwoman — a woman who cochairs an organization
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married
- coin changer — a machine that gives change rapidly, as to a customer, typically operated by a manual keyboard and often used in association with a cash register.
- colour chart — a chart with samples of paint colours
- colour phase — a seasonal change in the coloration of some animals
- colporrhaphy — (surgery) suturing of a defect in the wall of the vagina.
- come to hand — to become available; be received
- concert hall — a hall where concerts are performed
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- coprophagous — (esp of certain beetles) feeding on dung
- corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- countercharm — an object or action that is capable of destroying a magical charm
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- cover charge — A cover charge is a sum of money that you must pay in some restaurants and nightclubs in addition to the money that you pay there for your food and drink.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crepe-hanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
- daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
- data channel — (communications) A channel (on a BRI or PRI line) used to carry control information, to set up connections on the associated bearer channels. The name wasn't too bad back when users were sending voice (not data) over the bearer channels, but in 1997 it's quite a misnomer.
- data exhaust — unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
- de havilland — Sir Geoffrey. 1882–1965, British aircraft designer. He produced many military aircraft and the first jet airliners
- de-emphasize — to remove emphasis from
- deemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of deemphasize.
- deemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deemphasize.
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- dining chair — high-backed chair used at dinner table
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.