11-letter words containing h, a, t, i, e
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- heat engine — a mechanical device designed to transform part of the heat entering it into work.
- heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
- heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heathenized — Simple past tense and past participle of heathenize.
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- heavenliest — Superlative form of heavenly.
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hematemesis — The vomiting of blood.
- hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.
- hematolysis — hemolysis.
- hematoxylin — a colorless or pale-yellow, crystalline compound, C 16 H 14 O 6 ·3H 2 O, the coloring material of logwood: used as a mordant dye and as an indicator.
- hemiacetals — Plural form of hemiacetal.
- hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hepatitis a — a normally minor form of hepatitis caused by an RNA virus that does not persist in the blood: usually transmitted by ingestion of contaminated food or water.
- hepatitis b — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
- hepatitis c — a form of hepatitis with clinical effects similar to those of hepatitis B, caused by a blood-borne retrovirus (hepatitis C virus) that may be of the hepatitis non-A, non-B type.
- hepatotoxic — Damaging or destructive to liver cells.
- hepatotoxin — Any substance that causes hepatotoxicity.
- heptarchies — Plural form of heptarchy.
- heptarchist — A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
- heptastichs — Plural form of heptastich.
- heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- heretically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- heroization — to make a hero of: a war film that heroizes the warrior.
- hesitations — Plural form of hesitation.
- hetaerismic — of or relating to courtesans
- hetairismic — relating to hetairism, concubinage
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- heterotaxia — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
- heterotaxic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- heterotaxis — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
- heterotopia — misplacement or displacement, as of an organ.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hexametrist — a person who writes in hexameters
- hexametrize — to write or put into hexameters
- hexanitrate — any compound containing six nitrate groups.