11-letter words containing h, i, g, o
- haemangioma — Alternative spelling of hemangioma.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- hagiographa — the third of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, variously arranged, but usually comprising the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
- hagiography — the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.
- hagiologist — A writer on the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.
- hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- handholding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harmonising — Present participle of harmonise.
- harmonizing — Present participle of harmonize.
- harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- heading dog — a dog that heads off a flock of sheep or a single sheep
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.
- hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herding dog — one of any of several breeds of dogs used originally for herding livestock, including the Belgian sheepdog, collie, German shepherd, and Old English sheepdog.
- heresiology — the study of heresies.
- herringbone — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- heterogenic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
- heterogonic — exhibiting allometry
- hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
- hierography — a treatise on religion or sacred things
- higgs boson — a hypothetical type of heavy, electrically neutral particle with zero spin.
- high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- high comedy — comedy dealing with polite society, characterized by sophisticated, witty dialogue and an intricate plot.
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- high roller — a person who gambles for large stakes, as in a casino.
- high school — a school attended after elementary school or junior high school and usually consisting of grades 9 or 10 through 12.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- high yellow — a term used to refer to a light-skinned black person.
- high-income — of or relating to those with a larger income than the average.
- high-octane — noting a gasoline with a relatively high octane number, characterized by high efficiency and freedom from knock.