11-letter words containing h, e
- agonothetes — a person who presided over the ancient Olympic Games
- ahmadinejad — Mahmoud (mæhˈmuːd). born 1956, Iranian politician; president of Iran (2005–13)
- ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
- ailurophile — a person who likes cats
- ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
- air attache — a commissioned officer or warrant officer of an air force serving on the staff of an ambassador or minister.
- air chamber — a compartment in a device or structure that is filled with air
- air freight — freight transported by aircraft
- air hostess — An air hostess is a woman whose job is to look after the passengers in an aircraft.
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- air-breathe — (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.
- air-shipped — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
- 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.
- aldohexoses — Plural form of aldohexose.
- alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
- alexithymia — an inability to recognize, understand, and describe emotions
- 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-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
- aloha state — Hawaii (used as a nickname).
- alpha cells — cells in the anterior pituitary that contain acidophil granules
- 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-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
- 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
- amelanchier — A tree or shrub of a genus that includes the juneberries.
- amenorrheic — of or relating to amenorrhea
- amenorrhoea — abnormal absence of menstruation
- amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
- amethystine — Like amethyst, especially when referring to colour.
- aminophenol — any of three isomeric forms that are soluble crystalline solids, used as a dye intermediate (meta- and ortho-), in dyeing hair, fur, and textiles (ortho- and para-), and as a photographic developer (para-). Formula: C6H4NH2OH
- ampere-hour — a practical unit of quantity of electricity; the quantity that flows in one hour through a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere. 1 ampere-hour is equivalent to 3600 coulombs
- amphetamine — Amphetamine is a drug which increases people's energy, makes them excited, and reduces their desire for food.
- amphibolite — a metamorphic rock consisting mainly of amphibole and plagioclase
- amphicelous — concave on both sides, as the bodies of the vertebrae of fishes.
- amphigenous — (of certain parasitic fungi) growing on both sides of leaves.