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9-letter words containing h, i, g, e

  • homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
  • 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.
  • hospitage — the position of being a guest
  • hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
  • housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
  • 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.
  • hygrodeik — A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
  • hyphening — Present participle of hyphen.
  • hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
  • ideograph — an ideogram.
  • 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.
  • judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
  • key light — (in photography or motion pictures) the main light that illuminates the subject being photographed or filmed.
  • 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.
  • lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
  • lexiphage — (graphics)   /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
  • lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
  • light ale — a type of beer that is light in colour and low in alcohol content
  • 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.
  • lightener — That which lightens.
  • lightered — Simple past tense and past participle of lighter.
  • lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
  • lightless — without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.
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