10-letter words containing h, i, g, e, r
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- hiphuggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hirselling — the practice or activity of sorting sheep into groups of different kinds
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- hungriness — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlight — Faster than light speed.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- infighters — Plural form of infighter.
- inhearsing — Present participle of inhearse.
- inheriting — to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir: to inherit the family business.
- interglyph — a surface between two grooves, as on a triglyph.
- jetfighter — a fighter aircraft powered by a jet engine or engines.
- kieselguhr — diatomaceous earth.
- kingfisher — any of numerous fish- or insect-eating birds of the family Alcedinidae that have a large head and a long, stout bill and are usually crested and brilliantly colored.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- lethargies — Plural form of lethargy.
- lethargize — to make lethargic; stupefy.
- lethbridge — a city in S Alberta, in SW Canada.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- light beer — beer with a lower alcohol content than average
- light year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- light-year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- lighterage — the use of lighters in loading and unloading ships and in transporting goods for short distances.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- lightsaber — a type of sword, as depicted in the fictional Star Wars universe, with a blade made of laser energy that can both cut and burn: The Jedi knight drew his lightsaber and prepared to defend himself.
- lightsabre — Alternative spelling of lightsaber.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- logorrheic — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- margherita — a female given name, Italian form of Margaret.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- mischarged — Simple past tense and past participle of mischarge.
- mischarges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mischarge.
- mishearing — Present participle of mishear.
- murthering — Present participle of murther.
- near thing — an event or action whose outcome is nearly a failure, success, disaster, etc
- negrophile — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- neighbored — Simple past tense and past participle of neighbor.
- neighborly — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nephralgia — kidney pain.
- niggerhead — (nautical, dated, now offensive) A bollard made from an old cannon.