9-letter words containing h, i, g, e, n
- enthusing — Present participle of enthuse.
- eschewing — Present participle of eschew.
- exhorting — Present participle of exhort.
- fathering — a male parent.
- feng shui — Feng shui is a Chinese art which is based on the belief that the way you arrange things within a building, and within the rooms of that building, can affect aspects of your life such as how happy and successful you are.
- fetchings — Plural form of fetching.
- flenching — Present participle of flench.
- fleshings — flesh-colored tights.
- fleshling — a person whose mind is fixed on fleshly things (usually as opposed to spiritual matters)
- fletching — the feathers on an arrow, which stabilize it during flight.
- forenight — (Scotland) The evening, between twilight and bedtime.
- frenching — of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its inhabitants, or their language, culture, etc.: French cooking.
- frightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frighten.
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- garnishee — to attach (money or property) by garnishment.
- garnisher — to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
- garnishes — Plural form of garnish.
- gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
- gehlenite — a mineral, aluminum calcium silicate, occurring in prismatic crystals varying in color from gray-green to brown.
- gentilish — heathenish
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- greenfish — opaleye.
- greenwich — a borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- haltering — Present participle of halter.
- hammering — The sound or action of hammering something.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- hang five — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hang time — the length of time that a football remains in the air after being kicked.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- happening — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harlingen — a city in S Texas.
- hastening — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- heartling — a term of endearment, little heart
- hecogenin — a steroid occurring naturally in plants and used in drugs including cortisone
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hedgingly — So as to hedge; without making a firm commitment.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hellinger — Mark, 1903–47, U.S. writer and film producer.
- helmeting — the wearing or provision of a helmet
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- helsingør — a port in NE Denmark, in NE Zealand: site of Kronborg Castle (16th century), famous as the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop: 35 002 (2004 est)