11-letter words containing e, n, h, a
- hemanalysis — an analysis, especially of the chemical constituents, of the blood.
- hematoxylin — a colorless or pale-yellow, crystalline compound, C 16 H 14 O 6 ·3H 2 O, the coloring material of logwood: used as a mordant dye and as an indicator.
- hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
- hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hen harrier — northern harrier.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- heparinized — Simple past tense and past participle of heparinize.
- hepatotoxin — Any substance that causes hepatotoxicity.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
- heptavalent — septivalent.
- heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- heroization — to make a hero of: a war film that heroizes the warrior.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- hesitations — Plural form of hesitation.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexagonally — In a hexagonal manner.
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- hexahemeron — hexaemeron.
- hexanitrate — any compound containing six nitrate groups.
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hib vaccine — a vaccine against meningitis, pneumonia, and other illnesses caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b: usually administered during infancy.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- 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.
- hidden hand — an unknown force or influence believed to be the cause of certain, often unfortunate, events
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- 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.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.