9-letter words containing h, e, g
- high seas — the sea or ocean beyond the three-mile limit or territorial waters of a country.
- high tech — high technology.
- high tide — the tide at its highest level of elevation.
- high time — the appropriate time or past the appropriate time: It's high time he got out of bed.
- high wine — Often, high wines. Distilling. a distillate containing a high percentage of alcohol.
- high wire — a tightrope stretched very high above the ground.
- high-bred — of superior breed.
- 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-rise — (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- high-step — to walk or run by raising the legs higher than normal.
- high-tech — high technology.
- high-test — (of gasoline) boiling at a relatively low temperature.
- high-tone — having high principles; dignified.
- higher-up — a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- highflier — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.
- highliest — Superlative form of highly.
- highlited — Misspelling of highlighted.
- highlites — Misspelling of highlights.
- highnesse — Archaic spelling of highness.
- highrises — Plural form of highrise.
- highspeed — Alternative form of high-speed.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hindering — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hiphugger — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- hirelings — Plural form of hireling.
- hiroshige — Ando [ahn-daw] /ˈɑnˈdɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Tokube") 1797–1858, Japanese painter.
- hog score — a line at each end of the rink, parallel to the foot score and usually 7 yards (6.4 meters) in advance of the tee.
- hogchoker — a sole, Trinectes maculatus, found in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and south to Panama.
- hogfishes — Plural form of hogfish.
- hogsheads — Plural form of hogshead.
- hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
- hole high — at a spot on or near the green that is as far as the hole is from where the ball was hit
- hole-high — (of a ball) lying on a point almost even with the hole.
- hollering — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- home game — a game played on a team's home ground
- home page — website's introductory page
- home sign — any idiosyncratic system of gestural communication used by a deaf person.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homegoing — A voyage home.
- homegrown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- homologue — something homologous.
- hoosegows — Plural form of hoosegow.
- hoovering — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- horologer — A maker or seller of clocks and watches.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest