11-letter words containing a, r, i, g
- head margin — the empty space between the first line or other printed element on a page and the top of the page.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- hearing aid — a compact electronic amplifier worn to improve one's hearing, usually placed in or behind the ear.
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- 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.
- heyagashira — (sumo) the rikishi of highest rank in a particular heya.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hierography — a treatise on religion or sacred things
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high arctic — the regions of Canada, esp the northern islands, within the Arctic Circle
- 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-hatter — to snub or treat condescendingly.
- higher rate — (in Britain) a rate of income tax that is higher than the basic rate and becomes payable on taxable income in excess of a specified limit
- highhearted — Alt form high-hearted.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- 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
- histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- holographic — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- homographic — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hydrargyria — mercurialism.
- hyperphagia — bulimia.
- hyperphagic — bulimia.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- hypogravity — The presence of an apparently decreased gravitational field (such as in an aircraft following a parabolic path).
- hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers
- icebreaking — Serving the purpose of breaking ice.
- ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
- icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
- iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- ideogrammic — Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
- ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
- ignorantest — (nonstandard) Superlative form of ignorant.
- ignorantism — The support or promotion of ignorance.
- illtreating — Present participle of illtreat.
- image-maker — handler (sense c)