9-letter words containing h, g
- archiving — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- archology — the study of the origins of things
- arcograph — an instrument used for drawing arcs without using a central point
- arkwright — Sir Richard. 1732–92, English cotton manufacturer: inventor of the spinning frame (1769) which produced cotton thread strong enough to be used as a warp
- as though — You use as if and as though when you are giving a possible explanation for something or saying that something appears to be the case when it is not.
- asahigawa — a city on W central Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- asdfghjkl — Common filler text.
- ashlaring — ashlars collectively
- at length — If someone does something at length, they do it after a long period of time.
- athelings — Plural form of atheling.
- atheology — a resistance or aversion to theology
- attaching — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- aughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- ausgleich — the agreement (1867) that established the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
- autophagy — the consumption of one's own tissue by biting oneself
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- backlight — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- backsight — the sight of a rifle nearer the stock
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bang path — 1. (communications) An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2. (operating system) A shebang.
- banishing — Present participle of banish.
- bar graph — A bar graph is the same as a bar chart.
- barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
- beach bag — a large bag for carrying towels, swimsuits etc
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- bedighted — Simple past tense and past participle of bedight.
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- beholding — to observe; look at; see.
- ben hogan — Ben, 1912–97, U.S. golfer.
- bench dog — a dog on exhibit at a dog show before and after competition in the show ring.
- benedight — blessed
- benighted — If you describe people or the place where they live as benighted, you think they are unfortunate or do not know anything.
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- bethphage — a place in ancient Israel, at the foot of the Mount of Olives: starting point of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
- big night — an important and usually anticipated evening
- big wheel — A big wheel is a very large upright wheel with carriages around the edge of it which people can ride in. Big wheels are often found at theme parks or fun fairs.
- bigheaded — Informal. an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- blighting — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blinglish — a form of spoken English that blends British English with Black youth slang
- bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.