11-letter words containing i, n, h
- harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
- 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.
- hat in hand — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- hatchelling — Present participle of hatchel.
- 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?
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- head injury — wound to the head
- head margin — the empty space between the first line or other printed element on a page and the top of the page.
- headbanging — rhythmical moving of the head up and down in dancing to heavy metal
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- headhunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- heading dog — a dog that heads off a flock of sheep or a single sheep
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- 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.
- hearing aid — a compact electronic amplifier worn to improve one's hearing, usually placed in or behind the ear.
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- heat engine — a mechanical device designed to transform part of the heat entering it into work.
- 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-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.
- heathenized — Simple past tense and past participle of heathenize.
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- heavenliest — Superlative form of heavenly.
- heavy chain — a type of polypeptide chain present in an immunoglobulin molecule
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- hebephrenia — a type of schizophrenia characterized by emotionless, incongruous, or silly behavior, intellectual deterioration, and hallucinations, frequently beginning insidiously during adolescence.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heightening — Present participle of heighten.
- heinousness — The property of being heinous.
- heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
- heliotropin — piperonal.
- helleborein — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 37 H 56 O 18 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a heart stimulant.
- helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
- hellenistic — pertaining to Hellenists.
- hellishness — The property of being hellish.
- helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
- helminthoid — shaped like a helminth; vermiform; wormlike.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- 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)
- hemanalysis — an analysis, especially of the chemical constituents, of the blood.
- hematoxylin — a colorless or pale-yellow, crystalline compound, C 16 H 14 O 6 ·3H 2 O, the coloring material of logwood: used as a mordant dye and as an indicator.
- hemeprotein — (protein) Any conjugated protein containing heme as the prosthetic group.
- hemerythrin — a type of protein responsible for oxygen transportation in some marine invertebrates