11-letter words containing h, a, i, r, c
- epicheirema — Alt form epichirema.
- escherichia — a genus of Gram-negative rodlike bacteria that are found in the intestines of humans and many animals, esp E. coli, which is sometimes pathogenic and is widely used in genetic research
- eucharistic — (Theosophy) Pertaining to the Eucharist.
- euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
- facial hair — moustache, beard, etc.
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
- ftp archive — archive site
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- glycyrrhiza — Any legume (such as liquorice) of the genus [Glycyrrhiza]].
- gothic arch — a pointed arch, especially one having only two centers and equal radii.
- grand chain — a figure in formation dances, such as the lancers and Scottish reels, in which couples split up and move around in a circle in opposite directions, passing all other dancers until reaching their original partners
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
- graphically — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- halomorphic — containing or resulting from the presence of neutral salts or alkaline salts or the presence of both
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- haptotropic — relating to haptotropism
- hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- head-strict — (theory) A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.