12-letter words containing the
- gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
- greathearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half leather — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-leather — half binding.
- hand leather — a piece of leather wrapped around the hand of a shoemaker in order to protect it from being cut while pulling thread
- hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- heathenizing — Present participle of heathenize.
- helianthemum — (botany) Any of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- henotheistic — Relating to henotheism.
- hephthemimer — a verse with a group of seven metrical half feet
- heterotherms — Plural form of heterotherm.
- heterothermy — The possession of characteristics of both poikilothermy and homeothermy.
- hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
- hit the dirt — to drop to the ground
- hit the line — to try to carry the ball through the opposing line
- hit the mark — to achieve one's aim; be successful in one's attempt
- hit the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- hit the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- hit the silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
- hit the spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- hit the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- home theater — big-screen TV setup
- homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
- homeothermal — homoiothermal.
- homeothermic — (biology, of an, animal) Capable of maintaining a relatively constant body temperature independent of the surrounding environment.
- homoiotherms — Plural form of homoiotherm.
- homoiothermy — having a body temperature that is relatively constant and mostly independent of the temperature of the environment; warm-blooded (opposed to poikilothermic).
- homothermous — (biology) warm-blooded.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hypaesthesia — an abnormally weak sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch.
- hypersthenia — abnormal strength or tension
- hyperthermal — Also, thermic. of, relating to, or caused by heat or temperature: thermal capacity.
- hyperthermia — Pathology. abnormally high fever.
- hyperthermic — Having a very high body temperature.
- hypnotherapy — treatment of a symptom, disease, or addiction by means of hypnotism.
- hypoesthesia — an abnormally weak sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch.
- hypothecated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothecate.
- hypothecator — to pledge to a creditor as security without delivering over; mortgage.
- hypothesis's — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.