9-letter words containing h, i, g, e, n
- 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.
- herringer — a person that catches herring
- high wine — Often, high wines. Distilling. a distillate containing a high percentage of alcohol.
- high-tone — having high principles; dignified.
- highnesse — Archaic spelling of highness.
- 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.
- 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.
- hollering — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- home sign — any idiosyncratic system of gestural communication used by a deaf person.
- homegoing — A voyage home.
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- hoovering — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hygienics — hygiene (def 1).
- hygienist — an expert in hygiene.
- hyphening — Present participle of hyphen.
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- infighter — A person who indulges in infighting.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inlighted — Lit up or lighted; illuminated.
- inlighten — Alternative spelling of enlighten.
- inmeshing — Present participle of inmesh.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- inveighed — Simple past tense and past participle of inveigh.
- inveigher — One who inveighs.
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- knee-high — as high as the knees.
- knightage — a group of knights or knights collectively
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughline — a wrinkle near the outer corner of the eye, as if left from smiling or laughing
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lengthier — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthily — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- lightened — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.