10-letter words containing r, h, g
- hemorrhage — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- heortology — the study of the history and significance of the feasts and seasons in the ecclesiastical calendar.
- hermitages — Plural form of hermitage.
- heroic age — one of the five periods in human history, when, according to Hesiod, gods and demigods performed heroic and glorious deeds.
- herpangina — an infectious disease, especially of children, characterized by a sudden occurrence of fever, loss of appetite, and throat ulcerations, caused by a Coxsackie virus.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- hexangular — having six angles.
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierograms — Plural form of hierogram.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- high altar — the principal altar of a church
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- high brass — brass containing 65 per cent copper and 35 per cent zinc, used for most applications
- high chair — child's tall chair
- high court — Supreme Court.
- high flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- high horse — a haughty attitude or temper; a contemptuous manner.
- high liver — a person who lives extravagantly or luxuriously.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- high-flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- high-grade — of excellent or superior quality.
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
- high-proof — containing a high percentage of alcohol: high-proof spirits.
- high-riser — a couch or single bed with a mattress and frame concealed beneath, which, when pulled all the way out, lift up to the level of the upper cushion or mattress and lock into place to form a double bed.
- highbinder — a swindler; confidence man; cheat.
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- highchairs — Plural form of highchair.
- higher law — an ethical or religious principle considered as taking precedence over the laws of society, and to which one may appeal in order to justify disobedience to a constitution or enacted law with which it conflicts.
- highermost — highest
- highjacker — a person who hijacks.
- highlander — a Gael inhabiting the Highlands of Scotland.
- hildegarde — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- hiphuggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hippogriff — a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.
- hippogryph — Alternative spelling of hippogriff.
- hirselling — the practice or activity of sorting sheep into groups of different kinds
- histograms — Plural form of histogram.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- hogarthian — William, 1697–1764, English painter and engraver.
- holographs — Plural form of holograph.
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- holy grail — grail (def 1).
- holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.