12-Letter Words Starting with H

Bowler merchants

Certain traders misconstrued as harsh breed

Outfitters

Buttons, thread, etc.

Place to buy a tie

Buttons and bows etc

HABILITATE Qualified or entitled.

Qualification obtained by learner, one in residence

Habitableness.

HABITUAL someone who has a habit

Habituation

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

Pl. hagiographies Biography of saints.

HAGIOLOGIC

Hairbreadth

Haircutting

Shears, driers (anagram)

Beauty parlor employes.

Locksmiths (wordplay)

Putting clothes on after musical going over the top

HAIRLESS without hair

A minute distance

Habits harder to change in small measure

Tiny margin of safety for Damocles

Quibbler (2 words)

One disputing cowboy shirt retail price, at first

Quibbler

Hairstyling

They give some people a clip around the ears for cutting staff

Thought I used this clue before but I hadn't dreamt it up

Hallucinate

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

Enough! Nearly calling off trip on this

Mind-affecting drug

Drug inducing unreal perceptions

Plural or third person singular

An abnormal condition or mental state characterized by hallucination.

HALOGENATE

HALOGENATE HALOGEN a non metallic element

Haloperidol

Halterbreak

HALTERBROKE

Ethnic triangular treats

Thwarting

Handbreadth

Handcraft

Handedness

Handicapper

Putting at a disadvantage

Horse racing activity

Handicraft

Suit pocket accessory

Thing to sneeze into

Sneeze catcher

Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.

Good looks of workman with quite a head

Handwringer

Handwriting

Handyperson

A happenstance.

Chance expression of disgust about change involving co-star of Oliver!

Fellow writer getting caught out by attitude that wasn't planned

Writer bumping into ten chaps, a peculiar coincidence

Haptoglobin

Harbinger

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Hardheaded

English word

Yielding little for much toil

Demanding and unrewarding

Board game played with no vowels (wordplay)

Parking area for aeroplanes

Surfaced area for parking vehicles

Play by Terence Rattigan

Traditional pantomime episode

Pantomime; buffoonery

HARMLESS not harmful

Harmonical

Harmonicist

Harmonious

Instruments for Scarlatti

Ridiculous extremes disco and rap: doubly hard to play instruments

Harquebusie

Harvesttime

German rabbit stew

Rabbit stew

Abstract noun (-ity)

With the head foremost; -- of motion.

HEADLESS without a head

Mind adulterous woman on top of her form

Person in charge of a school

Female school leader

Where to see a psychiatrist (wordplay)

Place for a pirates privy (wordplay)

Military command center (wordplay)

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Certain analyst, slangily

Fickle lover having courage to wave

One who causes overwhelming distress

Narrow defeat, for example

Causing discontent.

Heartening

Hearthstone

Heartiness

Try being fashionable and moving

Deeply sad tendency in an audience

Direction in trial causing great sadness

They may be tugged at

The human violin section.

They can be tugged at

Rock group around the fire (wordplay)

Gratifying resolution of nightmare war

Making one feel good

In a heathenish manner.

HEATHENIZE To render heathen or heathenish.

The state or quality of being heavenly.

Sad (2 words)

Melancholy

Heavyweight

In periods of seven days; weekly.

Hebephrenia

Hebephrenic

Dull or lifeless, from the Latin for 'blunt'

""HEBRAIZE to make Hebrew, also HEBRAISE""

Hectograph

Hedgehopper

Hedgehop

HEEDLESS paying little of no attention

Heldentenor

Helicopter

Revolving around the sun

Revolving round the sun

Heliograph

Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

Heliolatry

Adjective (-ous)

""The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.""

Hellacious

""The large brownish aquatic larva of the dobsonfly, often used as fishing bait. Also called dobson , snake doctor .""

A person who steers a ship.

Feeling of being unable to manage

Inability to defend oneself

""Pl. hemangiomas also hemangiomata (-m -t ) A benign skin lesion consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.""

Producing blood.

Hematology

The science encompassing the medical study of the blood and blood-producing organs.

Hematoxylin

Hero takes me aboard - decision is made by Lily

Hemerythrin

HEMICHORDATE

HEMIHYDRATE

Hemihydrate

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Pl -ses [-ˌsiːz] (Medicine) Med the filtering of circulating blood through a semipermeable membrane in an apparatus ( haemodialyser or artificial kidney ) to remove waste products: performed in cases of kidney failure Also called extracorporeal dialysis See also dialysis [from haemo- + dialysis ]

Pl. hemodialyses (-s z ) A procedure for removing metabolic waste products or toxic substances from the bloodstream by dialysis.

Noun (-tion)

Hemodynamic

Hemophiliac

Hemoprotein

HEMORRHAGE Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

""Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.""

Hemosiderin

HEMSTITCHER hemstitch

Hemstitch

From now on

Do French wear pants from now on (wordplay)

In future

HENOTHEIST

Abnormal enlargement of the liver.

In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.

Herbicidal

Passable property of woman to change, possessing boring name

Relating to or based on hereditarianism.

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.

""In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).""

The state of being heritable.

""The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.""

A way to be sealed

Completely (sealed)

Hermeticism

""Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.as, a heroicomic poem.""

""HERRINGBONE Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.""

Herringbone

(Done) with wavering or indecision

(Done) with indecisive pauses

Homeless dental hygienist working in indecisive manner

Heteroauxin

""Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.""

Heteroclite

Heterocycle

HETEROCYCLE

Heterodoxy

English word

HETERODYNE

""Spending different stages of a life cycle on different, usually unrelated hosts. Used of parasites such as rust fungi and tapeworms.""

Heteroecism

""Either of two conjugating gametes that differ in structure or behavior, such as the small motile male spermatozoon and the larger nonmotile female ovum. Also called anisogamete .""

HETEROGAMETE

Heterogamy

""The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.""

Heterogeny

Not from the same source

Heterogony

Heterograft

A cell having two or more genetically different nuclei.

""Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs. homologous; as, heterologous organs.""

Heteronomy

Subject to external controls

Having dissimilar leaves on one plant.

Heteroploid

HETEROPLOID

Straight as an arrow, perhaps (wordplay)

Straight

Heterotroph

HETEROTROPH

An organism that has different alleles at a particular gene locus on homologous chromosomes.

Having different alleles at one or more corresponding chromosomal loci.

Hexadecimal

Hexahydrate

Hexaploidy

Adjective (-al)

""A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.""

Hibernation

Hiddenness

Arranged in order of rank

Classified by rank

HIERARCHIZE

Hierarchize

Hieratical

Type of writing

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Highbrowism

Showing stress in the air before landing

Animal's rear

Concealed around new accommodation in rear

Posterior

Hippieness

Oppo hams it up (anagram)

Large semi-aquatic mammal

Large African mammal frequenting rivers

Histaminase

HISTOGEN inferior plant tissue

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; the opposite of histolysis histolysis

Tissueproducing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

""Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms.""

Histologist

Memorable friend over time

Historicism

Historicist

HISTORICIZE To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle.

Historicize