12-letter words containing rr
- galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
- garrison cap — overseas cap.
- gay marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- germ carrier — an organism carrying microorganisms, esp microorganisms that produce disease in animals or plants
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- glacé cherry — a crystallized or candied cherry, used in cookery and cocktail-making
- gooseberries — Plural form of gooseberry.
- grande-terre — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- gun carriage — the structure on which a gun is mounted or moved and from which it is fired.
- haemorrhages — Plural form of haemorrhage.
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heart cherry — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.
- heat barrier — thermal barrier.
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hemorrhoidal — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horrifically — causing horror.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- horror story — a story, movie, etc., that entertains or fascinates by shocking or frightening, especially by an emphasis on bloodshed or supernatural forces.
- house arrest — confinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail: He was under house arrest until the day of his trial.
- hurry-scurry — headlong, disorderly haste; hurry and confusion.
- hypercorrect — overly correct; excessively fastidious; fussy: hypercorrect manners.
- hyperreactor — a person who behaves in a hyperreactive manner
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hyperreality — The state or condition of being hyperreal.
- incorrigible — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
- incorrigibly — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
- incorrodible — incapable of being corroded; not corrodible
- incorruption — the quality or condition of being incorrupt.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- inerrability — Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility.
- insurrection — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- intercurrent — intervening, as of time or events.
- intercurring — Present participle of intercur.
- intermarried — Simple past tense and past participle of intermarry.
- intermarries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermarry.
- interregnums — Plural form of interregnum.
- interrelated — reciprocally or mutually related: an interrelated series of experiments.
- interrelates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interrelate.
- interresting — Misspelling of interesting.