9-letter words containing h, i, g, e
- gothamite — a journalistic nickname for New York City.
- gothicize — to make gothic, as in style.
- grahamite — an asphaltite with a pitch-black luster.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- 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.
- grieshoch — a bed of embers, especially of a peat or moss fire.
- grouchier — Comparative form of grouchy.
- guideship — the position of a guide
- guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
- gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.
- hagfishes — Plural form of hagfish.
- 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.
- haughtier — Comparative form of haughty.
- head girl — The head girl of a school is the girl who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- headlight — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headright — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- 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.
- hedgebill — a tool for pruning a hedge
- 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.
- heidegger — Martin, 1889–1976, German philosopher and writer.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heightism — discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, especially discrimination against short people.
- 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.
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- heliology — the study of the sun
- 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)
- hemialgia — pain or neuralgia involving only one side of the body or head.