12-letter words that end in h
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- floor polish — a substance used to polish floors
- floor-length — extending to the floor: a floor-length skirt.
- focal length — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- forty-fourth — next after the forty-third; being the ordinal number for 44.
- forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
- french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
- from scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gazetteerish — in the style of a gazetteer
- gefilte fish — a forcemeat of boned fish, especially such freshwater fish as carp, pike, or whitefish, blended with eggs, matzo meal, and seasoning, shaped into balls or sticks and simmered in a vegetable broth, and often served chilled.
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- get in touch — make contact
- get off with — kiss
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- gloss finish — a reflective or shiny surface, usually on a photograph but also sometimes on metal, paper, paint, etc
- go down with — If you go down with an illness or a disease, you catch it.
- go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- greek church — Greek Orthodox Church (def 1).
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- have got sth — You use have got to say that someone has a particular thing, or to mention a quality or characteristic that someone or something has. In informal American English, people sometimes just use 'got'.
- head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hollywoodish — of, relating to, or resembling Hollywood, Hollywoodians, or the products of Hollywood and the motion-picture industry.
- home stretch — final stages: of race or journey
- homescreetch — a mistle thrush
- house church — a group of Christians meeting for worship in a private house
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- in bad faith — intending to deceive sb
- in line with — conforming to
- in the flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.