11-letter words containing h, i, r, n, g
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- high-energy — possessing speed and energy beyond the classical laws of motion, esp of particles which have been accelerated in an accelerator
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderingly — in a hindering manner, so as to hinder or obstruct
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hiring hall — an employment office operated by a union for placing members in jobs.
- hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- homeporting — Present participle of homeport.
- homeshoring — A migration of service employees from the office to the home, where such homes have proper communications equipment.
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- homogenizer — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hot springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
- hot working — Hot working is a process in which a metal is shaped under pressure at a fairly high temperature.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybridizing — Present participle of hybridize.
- hydrogenize — hydrogenate.
- hydrolyzing — Present participle of hydrolyze.
- hypermiling — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
- iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- in strength — If a group turns out in strength, they arrive in large numbers.
- infographic — Often, infographics. a visual presentation of information in the form of a chart, graph, or other image accompanied by minimal text, intended to give an easily understood overview, often of a complex subject: a mass-transit infographic that uses different colors to represent different modes of transportation.
- ingathering — a gathering in, especially of farm products; harvest.
- inner light — the presence and inner working of God in the soul acting as a guiding spirit that is superior even to Scripture and unites man to Christ
- interchange — to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
- intergrowth — growth or growing together, as of one thing with or into another.
- iron sights — conventional non-telescopic sights on a rifle
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- junior high — lower secondary school
- khan tengri — a mountain in central Asia, on the border between Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of W China. Height: 6995 m (22 951 ft)
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kingfishers — Plural form of kingfisher.
- latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.
- long-haired — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longshoring — the work or occupation of a longshoreman.
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- marathoning — the sport of running marathons
- marshalling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- menorrhagia — excessive menstrual discharge.
- merchanting — the act of selling commodities
- michigander — a native or inhabitant of Michigan.
- mischarging — Present participle of mischarge.
- monographic — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.