11-letter words containing h, i
- ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
- ailurophile — a person who likes cats
- ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
- air attache — a commissioned officer or warrant officer of an air force serving on the staff of an ambassador or minister.
- air chamber — a compartment in a device or structure that is filled with air
- air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
- air freight — freight transported by aircraft
- air hostess — An air hostess is a woman whose job is to look after the passengers in an aircraft.
- air marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- air-breathe — (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.
- air-shipped — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
- airbrushing — Present participle of airbrush.
- al-ghazzali — Ghazzali.
- alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
- alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
- alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
- alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
- alexithymia — an inability to recognize, understand, and describe emotions
- algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- alkaliphile — Any organism that lives and thrives in an alkaline environment, such as a soda lake; a form of extremophile.
- alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
- all up with — over; finished
- all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
- alley light — a searchlight mounted on a public-safety vehicle or other motor vehicle for sideways lighting.
- allocheiria — a medical condition in which sensation is felt at a different point on the body from that stimulated
- allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
- allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
- allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
- allophylian — (of languages, especially those of Europe and Asia) neither Indo-European nor Semitic.
- aloha shirt — Hawaiian shirt
- alpha cygni — Deneb
- alpha helix — a helical conformation of a polypeptide chain, found abundantly in the structure of proteins
- alpha tauri — Aldebaran
- alphabetise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetize.
- alphabetize — to arrange in conventional alphabetical order
- altazimuths — Plural form of altazimuth.
- alto-phobia — an abnormal fear of heights; acrophobia.
- alzheimer's — a common form of dementia, believed to be caused by changes in the brain, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
- amaranthine — of a dark reddish-purple colour
- amateurship — the nature of an amateur
- amaxophobia — Fear of riding in a vehicle.
- amelanchier — A tree or shrub of a genus that includes the juneberries.
- amenorrheic — of or relating to amenorrhea
- amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
- amethystine — Like amethyst, especially when referring to colour.
- aminophenol — any of three isomeric forms that are soluble crystalline solids, used as a dye intermediate (meta- and ortho-), in dyeing hair, fur, and textiles (ortho- and para-), and as a photographic developer (para-). Formula: C6H4NH2OH
- ammishaddai — the father of Ahiezer, the Danite. Num. 1:12; 2:25.