11-letter words containing n, i, h, c
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- haemocyanin — a blue copper-containing respiratory pigment in crustaceans and molluscs that functions as haemoglobin
- haines city — a town in central Florida.
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- hallucinant — a person who experiences hallucinations
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hand-picked — to pick by hand.
- hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handpicking — to pick by hand.
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- 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.
- hatchelling — Present participle of hatchel.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heavy chain — a type of polypeptide chain present in an immunoglobulin molecule
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- hellenistic — pertaining to Hellenists.
- helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
- hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
- hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
- hemisecting — Present participle of hemisect.
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hence with! — away with!
- heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heroin chic — the perceived glamorization of heroin and the characteristics associated with heroin addicts, such as gauntness and hollow eyes
- heterogenic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
- heterogonic — exhibiting allometry
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hib vaccine — a vaccine against meningitis, pneumonia, and other illnesses caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b: usually administered during infancy.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hibernicize — to make Irish in character.
- hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- high-income — of or relating to those with a larger income than the average.
- 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.