11-letter words containing h, a
- airbrushing — Present participle of airbrush.
- al hudaydah — a city in W Yemen, on the Red Sea.
- al-ghazzali — Ghazzali.
- album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
- alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
- alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
- alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
- aldohexoses — Plural form of aldohexose.
- alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
- alexithymia — an inability to recognize, understand, and describe emotions
- algophagous — feeding on algae, as certain insects.
- algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- alkaliphile — Any organism that lives and thrives in an alkaline environment, such as a soda lake; a form of extremophile.
- alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
- all the way — You use all the way to emphasize how long a distance is.
- all up with — over; finished
- all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
- all-weather — All-weather sports take place on an artificial surface instead of on grass.
- allelomorph — allele
- allelopathy — the inhibitory effect of one living plant upon another by the release of toxic substances
- alley light — a searchlight mounted on a public-safety vehicle or other motor vehicle for sideways lighting.
- allocheiria — a medical condition in which sensation is felt at a different point on the body from that stimulated
- allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
- allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
- allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
- allophylian — (of languages, especially those of Europe and Asia) neither Indo-European nor Semitic.
- aloha shirt — Hawaiian shirt
- aloha state — Hawaii (used as a nickname).
- alpha brass — a type of brass that contains less than 35 per cent zinc
- alpha cells — cells in the anterior pituitary that contain acidophil granules
- alpha cygni — Deneb
- alpha decay — the radioactive decay process resulting in emission of alpha particles
- alpha helix — a helical conformation of a polypeptide chain, found abundantly in the structure of proteins
- alpha lyrae — Vega1
- alpha mummy — a woman who excels in the art of motherhood
- alpha stock — any of the most active securities on the Stock Exchange of which there are between 100 and 200; at least ten market makers must continuously display the prices of an alpha stock and all transactions in them must be published immediately
- alpha tauri — Aldebaran
- alpha-omega — the beginning and the end. Rev. 1:8.
- alpha-waves — a pattern of slow brain waves (alpha waves) in normal persons at rest with closed eyes, thought by some to be associated with an alert but daydreaming mind.
- alphabetise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetize.
- alphabetize — to arrange in conventional alphabetical order
- altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
- altazimuths — Plural form of altazimuth.
- alto-phobia — an abnormal fear of heights; acrophobia.
- alzheimer's — a common form of dementia, believed to be caused by changes in the brain, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
- amaranthine — of a dark reddish-purple colour
- amateurship — the nature of an amateur
- amaxophobia — Fear of riding in a vehicle.