9-letter words containing h, e, g
- hotdogger — One who hotdogs; a sporting show-off.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hugeously — hugely
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- humbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of humbug.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- hung over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hungerful — hungry
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hydrangea — any shrub belonging to the genus Hydrangea, of the saxifrage family, several species of which are cultivated for their large, showy flower clusters of white, pink, or blue.
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hyetology — the branch of meteorology dealing with precipitation.
- hygienics — hygiene (def 1).
- hygienist — an expert in hygiene.
- hygrodeik — A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- hyphening — Present participle of hyphen.
- hypnogeny — hypnosis or the induction of a hypnotic state
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypogeous — underground; subterranean.
- hypophyge — apophyge (def 2).
- ideograph — an ideogram.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- infighter — A person who indulges in infighting.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inlighted — Lit up or lighted; illuminated.
- inlighten — Alternative spelling of enlighten.
- inmeshing — Present participle of inmesh.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- inveighed — Simple past tense and past participle of inveigh.
- inveigher — One who inveighs.
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- key light — (in photography or motion pictures) the main light that illuminates the subject being photographed or filmed.
- khaganate — An empire comprising of several khanates.
- knee-high — as high as the knees.
- knightage — a group of knights or knights collectively
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughable — such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.