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11-letter words containing h, i, g, o, r, s

  • hot springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
  • hydrologist — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
  • hygroscopic — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
  • hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
  • iron sights — conventional non-telescopic sights on a rifle
  • isogeotherm — an imaginary line connecting all points within the earth having the same mean temperature.
  • job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
  • light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
  • lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
  • longshoring — the work or occupation of a longshoreman.
  • micrographs — Plural form of micrograph.
  • microlights — Plural form of microlight.
  • microphages — Plural form of microphage.
  • mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
  • mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
  • nearshoring — the practice of moving one's employees or business activities from a distant country back to a country that is nearby: The U.S.-based company is focusing on the nearshoring of its customer-service operations from India to Canada. Compare offshoring.
  • oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
  • orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
  • ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
  • overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prophesying — to foretell or predict.
  • righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
  • sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • short sight — myopia
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • sightworthy — worth seeing
  • sit through — endure the whole of
  • sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
  • surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
  • sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
  • torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
  • unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
  • warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
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