11-letter words containing h, i, e
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
- hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half relief — mezzo-relievo.
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hamiticized — exhibiting the characteristics of or influenced by speakers of Hamitic.
- hammer mill — a mill for breaking up ore or crushing coal.
- hammersmith — a borough of Greater London, England.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- han fei-tzu — died 233 b.c, Chinese philosopher and legal theorist.
- hand-picked — to pick by hand.
- handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- handweaving — the art or technique of weaving on a handloom.
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- hang behind — to remain in a place after others have left; linger
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hanging lie — a lie in which the ball is situated on a slope having a downward incline in the direction that the ball is to be played.
- happinesses — the quality or state of being happy.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard hitter — a bowler hat
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.