9-letter words containing h, i, s, e
- harestail — a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum vaginatum, more tussocky than common cotton grass and having only a single flower head
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- hashemite — (mineral) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, chromium, oxygen, and sulfur.
- hashimite — a member of any Arab dynasty in the Middle East founded by Husein ibn-Ali or his descendants.
- hastening — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- hastilude — A medieval martial game.
- hastiness — moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- hawsepipe — an iron or steel pipe in the stem or bow of a vessel through which an anchor cable passes.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headiness — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- headsails — Plural form of headsail.
- headships — Plural form of headship.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- healthism — The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
- heartiest — warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- heathiest — Superlative form of heathy.
- heaviness — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- heaviside — Oliver, 1850–1925, English physicist.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hedonists — Plural form of hedonist.
- heediness — heedfulness; attentiveness
- heftiness — The property of being hefty.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heightism — discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, especially discrimination against short people.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heiresses — Plural form of heiress.
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- helicoids — Plural form of helicoid.
- helidecks — Plural form of helideck.
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliostat — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- hellenism — ancient Greek culture or ideals.
- hellenist — a person, especially in ancient times, adopting Greek speech, ideas, or customs.
- hellishly — In a hellish manner.
- helminths — Plural form of helminth.
- helplines — Plural form of helpline.