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11-letter words containing i, n, h

  • hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
  • higgs boson — a hypothetical type of heavy, electrically neutral particle with zero spin.
  • high diving — the sport and skill of diving from a high board
  • high german — the group of West Germanic languages that in a.d. c400–c500 underwent the second consonant shift described by Grimm's Law. Abbreviation: HG.
  • high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
  • high living — a luxurious lifestyle involving lots of fine eating, drinking, parties, etc
  • high season — period of greatest activity
  • high-energy — possessing speed and energy beyond the classical laws of motion, esp of particles which have been accelerated in an accelerator
  • high-flying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
  • high-handed — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
  • high-income — of or relating to those with a larger income than the average.
  • high-minded — having or showing high, exalted principles or feelings.
  • high-necked — (of a garment) high at the neck.
  • high-octane — noting a gasoline with a relatively high octane number, characterized by high efficiency and freedom from knock.
  • high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
  • highballing — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
  • highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • highjacking — Present participle of highjack.
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • hightailing — Present participle of hightail.
  • hillwalking — The pastime of walking in hilly country.
  • hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
  • hinderingly — in a hindering manner, so as to hinder or obstruct
  • hinderlands — the buttocks
  • hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
  • hindoostani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
  • hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
  • hinge joint — ginglymus.
  • hinshelwoodSir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
  • hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
  • hip pointer — a painful bruise or torn muscle at the upper ridge of the pelvis
  • hip-hugging — (of trousers) beginning at the hips instead of the waist
  • 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
  • hirsuteness — The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.
  • his-and-her — denoting two matching or identical items, one intended for use by a male and the other by a female: his-and-her towels in the bathroom; his-and-her sweatshirts.
  • hispanicism — an idiom peculiar to Spanish.
  • hispanicist — Hispanist.
  • hispanicize — to make Spanish or Latin American, as in character, custom, or style.
  • histaminase — an enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of histamine, used in treating allergies.
  • histrionics — an actor.
  • histrionism — Histrionic behaviour.
  • hit batsman — a batter who, having been struck by a pitch, is awarded first base.
  • hit the fan — any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
  • hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
  • hitchhiking — Present participle of hitchhike.
  • hla antigen — an antigen of the HLA group, designated by a letter (HLA-A, HLA-B, etc.) according to the chromosome locus on which the controlling HLA gene appears and additionally by a number (HLA-A1, HLA-A2, etc.) according to the order of discovery and identification.
  • ho chi minh — 1890?–1969, North Vietnamese political leader: president of North Vietnam 1954–69.
  • hob-jobbing — the work or activities of a hobjobber
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