11-letter words containing a, n, i, g, h
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- high german — the group of West Germanic languages that in a.d. c400–c500 underwent the second consonant shift described by Grimm's Law. Abbreviation: HG.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- high-handed — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
- high-octane — noting a gasoline with a relatively high octane number, characterized by high efficiency and freedom from knock.
- highballing — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- highjacking — Present participle of highjack.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hightailing — Present participle of hightail.
- hillwalking — The pastime of walking in hilly country.
- hiring hall — an employment office operated by a union for placing members in jobs.
- hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
- hla antigen — an antigen of the HLA group, designated by a letter (HLA-A, HLA-B, etc.) according to the chromosome locus on which the controlling HLA gene appears and additionally by a number (HLA-A1, HLA-A2, etc.) according to the order of discovery and identification.
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- homolignane — (organic chemistry) Any compound derived from a lignane by adding extra carbon atoms in a ring or sidechain.
- hooliganism — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- hopping mad — working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hyphenating — Present participle of hyphenate.
- ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
- iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- if anything — on the contrary
- in exchange — in return
- infangthief — (in Old English law) the right of a lord of the manor to have jurisdiction over a thief caught within the bounds of his property
- infographic — Often, infographics. a visual presentation of information in the form of a chart, graph, or other image accompanied by minimal text, intended to give an easily understood overview, often of a complex subject: a mass-transit infographic that uses different colors to represent different modes of transportation.
- ingathering — a gathering in, especially of farm products; harvest.
- interchange — to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- keelhauling — Present participle of keelhaul.
- khan tengri — a mountain in central Asia, on the border between Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of W China. Height: 6995 m (22 951 ft)
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
- kotahitanga — unity or solidarity
- lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
- landholding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- languishing — becoming languid, in any way.
- latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.
- laugh lines — Laugh lines are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.