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11-letter words containing h, i, s, e

  • hair-raiser — a story, experience, etc., that is terrifying or thrilling.
  • hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
  • hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
  • hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
  • halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
  • half sister — sister (def 2).
  • half-sister — sister (def 2).
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • hammersmith — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
  • hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
  • happinesses — the quality or state of being happy.
  • harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
  • hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
  • harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
  • haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
  • harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
  • harvesttime — the time of year when a crop or crops are harvested, especially autumn.
  • hatchetfish — any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx, and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters, having a silvery, hatchet-shaped body.
  • hate-listen — to listen to a radio show, singer, etc., that one professes to dislike, often with the intention to mock or criticize: Why do I continue to hate-listen to his silly podcasts?
  • hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
  • haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
  • have issues — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
  • hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
  • hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
  • head-strict — (theory)   A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
  • headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
  • headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
  • headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
  • health risk — something that could cause harm to people's health
  • healthiness — possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
  • hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
  • heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
  • heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
  • heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
  • heavenliest — Superlative form of heavenly.
  • hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
  • hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
  • heinousness — The property of being heinous.
  • heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
  • helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
  • helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
  • helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
  • heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
  • heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
  • heliophytes — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
  • helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
  • heliosphere — the region around the sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends.
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