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.
- hinshelwood — Sir 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