10-letter words containing g, c, h
- gynophilic — Woman-loving.
- gynophobic — relating to a dread or hatred of women
- hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
- hagiocracy — government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
- hagiologic — Synonym of hagiological.
- hagioscope — squint (def 13).
- hatcheling — Present participle of hatchel.
- hatchlings — Plural form of hatchling.
- hectograms — Plural form of hectogram.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- hedgewitch — A modern witch who focuses on herbalism and shamanic experience.
- hemiplegic — paralysis of one side of the body.
- hendecagon — a polygon having 11 angles and 11 sides.
- henpecking — Present participle of henpeck.
- heroic age — one of the five periods in human history, when, according to Hesiod, gods and demigods performed heroic and glorious deeds.
- hiccoughed — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccough.
- hiccupping — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- high chair — child's tall chair
- high court — Supreme Court.
- high place — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
- high-class — of a type superior in quality or degree; first-rate: a high-class hotel.
- high-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively high number of warp and filling threads per square inch.
- high-stick — to strike (an opponent) at shoulder level or above with a hockey stick.
- highchairs — Plural form of highchair.
- highjacker — a person who hijacks.
- highschool — a school attended after elementary school or junior high school and usually consisting of grades 9 or 10 through 12.
- hijackings — Plural form of hijacking.
- histologic — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- homecoming — a return to one's home; arrival at home.
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hsi chiang — a river in S China, flowing E from Yunnan province to the South China Sea near Canton. 1250 miles (2012 km) long.
- hugh capet — Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.
- hydrologic — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hygienical — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hygrochasy — the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hygroscopy — The ability of a substance to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypnogenic — of or relating to the induction of sleep
- hypnogogic — Alternative spelling of hypnagogic.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- impeaching — Present participle of impeach.
- inchanting — Present participle of inchant.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- kremenchug — a city in central Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.