9-letter words containing h, e, i, g
- 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.
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- heritages — Plural form of heritage.
- hermitage — the habitation of a hermit.
- herringer — a person that catches herring
- 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.
- 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.
- hogfishes — Plural form of hogfish.
- 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 sign — any idiosyncratic system of gestural communication used by a deaf person.