11-letter words containing g, a, d, h
- headbanging — rhythmical moving of the head up and down in dancing to heavy metal
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- headhunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- heading dog — a dog that heads off a flock of sheep or a single sheep
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- 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.
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- hedge apple — osage orange.
- hedgeapples — Plural form of hedgeapple.
- hemorrhaged — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- 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-handed — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
- highhearted — Alt form high-hearted.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- highly paid — that receives a large salary
- holographed — to make by the use of holography.
- homogenated — Homogenized.
- homologated — Simple past tense and past participle of homologate.
- honor guard — guard of honor.
- hopping mad — working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydrargyria — mercurialism.
- hydrargyrum — mercury.
- hydrogenase — an enzyme in certain microorganisms that speeds up the reversible oxidation of hydrogen
- hydrogenate — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrography — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- 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.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
- jehovah god — (among the Jehovah's Witnesses) God.
- jugged hare — a stew made of wild rabbit, usually cooked in an earthenware jug or stone pot.
- knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
- lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
- landholding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- light bread — white bread.
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- loggerheads — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- long-haired — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- long-headed — Anthropology. dolichocephalic.
- longhandles — long underwear.