10-letter words containing h, a, n, g
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hormogonia — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- hsi chiang — a river in S China, flowing E from Yunnan province to the South China Sea near Canton. 1250 miles (2012 km) long.
- hsiangt'an — a city in E Hunan, in S China.
- hsinhsiang — a city in N Henan province, in E China.
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- humanising — Present participle of humanise.
- humanizing — Present participle of humanize.
- hursinghar — night jasmine (def 1).
- husbandage — the fees and commissions of a ship's manager.
- husbanding — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- hy antigen — an antigen encoded by a gene on the Y (male) chromosome, active in the development of male structures.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
- hygienical — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypnagogia — (medicine) A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypnograph — an instrument that measures activities of the human body during sleep.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- impeaching — Present participle of impeach.
- in the bag — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
- inchanting — Present participle of inchant.
- ingushetia — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation, in the N Caucasus. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Magas.
- inhabiting — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhearsing — Present participle of inhearse.
- jana sangh — a political party in India from 1951 to 1977; in 1977 it merged with several other parties to form the Janata Party. After the Janata Party split in 1980, it re-formed as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
- john logan — John or James (Tah-gah-jute) c1725–80, leader of the Cayuga tribe.
- keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- knighthead — either of a pair of upright members flanking and securing the bowsprit of a ship at the bow, often used as mooring bitts; apostle.
- kuang-chou — Guangzhou
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- language h — An early business-oriented language from NCR.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- last thing — as the final action, esp before retiring to bed at night
- late-night — of or occurring late at night: a late-night TV talk show.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laugh line — crow's-foot (def 1).
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- legharness — armor for the leg, sometimes including that for the foot.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.