9-letter words containing h, e, g
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- hecogenin — a steroid occurring naturally in plants and used in drugs including cortisone
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hedgebill — a tool for pruning a hedge
- hedgehogs — Plural form of hedgehog.
- hedgehops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hedgehop.
- hedgeless — Without hedges.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- hedgingly — So as to hedge; without making a firm commitment.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heidegger — Martin, 1889–1976, German philosopher and writer.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heightism — discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, especially discrimination against short people.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- helengrad — a satirical name for Wellington as the seat of Helen Clark's socialist government from 1999 to 2008
- helgoland — a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- heliology — the study of the sun
- hell gate — a narrow channel in the East River, in New York City.
- hellinger — Mark, 1903–47, U.S. writer and film producer.
- helmeting — the wearing or provision of a helmet
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- helsingør — a port in NE Denmark, in NE Zealand: site of Kronborg Castle (16th century), famous as the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop: 35 002 (2004 est)
- hemialgia — pain or neuralgia involving only one side of the body or head.
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- hemogenia — pseudohemophilia.
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hen night — A hen night is a party for a woman who is getting married very soon, to which only women are invited.
- heptaglot — a book written in seven languages
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- herbology — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- here goes — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- heritages — Plural form of heritage.
- hermitage — the habitation of a hermit.
- herringer — a person that catches herring
- heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- hexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- hexagrams — Plural form of hexagram.
- hierogram — a sacred symbol, as an emblem, pictograph, or the like.
- hierology — literature or learning regarding sacred things.
- high beam — an automobile headlight beam providing bright, long-range illumination of a darkened road and chiefly for use in driving in nonurban areas.
- high dive — the performance of a dive from a high board
- high five — a gesture of greeting, good-fellowship, or triumph in which one person slaps the upraised palm of the hand against that of another.
- high gear — the highest gear in a car or other motor vehicle
- high life — You use the high life to refer to an exciting and luxurious way of living that involves a great deal of entertainment, going to parties, and eating good food.