11-letter words containing g, a, c
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- handpicking — to pick by hand.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- hatchelling — Present participle of hatchel.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.
- hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high arctic — the regions of Canada, esp the northern islands, within the Arctic Circle
- high places — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
- high-impact — High-impact exercise puts a lot of stress on your body.
- high-octane — noting a gasoline with a relatively high octane number, characterized by high efficiency and freedom from knock.
- highjacking — Present participle of highjack.
- hog cholera — an acute, usually fatal, highly contagious disease of swine caused by an RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus, characterized by high fever, lack of appetite, diarrhea, and lethargy.
- 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.
- homogametic — producing only one type of gamete with respect to sex chromosomes.
- 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.”.
- homological — homologous.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- hypercharge — a quantum number assigned to baryons and mesons, equal to B + S, where B is the baryon number and S is the strangeness.
- hyperphagic — bulimia.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- ice dancing — a competitive ice-skating event in which a couple, using basic skating figures and not being permitted to use lifts, performs choreographed movements to music, based on traditional ballroom dances.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- 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.
- idealogical — Ideologic.
- ideogrammic — Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- ideological — of or relating to ideology.
- idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
- illogically — In an illogical manner, without following methods of sane and correct reasoning, in a manner lacking thought or logic.
- imbricating — Present participle of imbricate.
- implicating — Present participle of implicate.
- imprecating — Present participle of imprecate.
- in exchange — in return
- incarnating — Present participle of incarnate.
- incogitable — Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- incogitancy — heedlessness; thoughtlessness
- incognitant — (obsolete) ignorant.
- incognizant — not cognizant; without knowledge or awareness; unaware (usually followed by of).