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11-letter words containing r, h, i, n, a

  • enheritance — Obsolete form of inheritance.
  • enthralling — Capturing and holding one's attention; fascinating.
  • etheromania — the condition of being addicted to ether
  • euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
  • exhorbitant — Misspelling of exorbitant.
  • exhortation — An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.
  • fair enough — that is reasonable
  • fan the air — to strike at but fail to hit something
  • farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
  • farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  • fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
  • foremanship — The position of a foreman.
  • franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
  • franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
  • franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
  • fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
  • gainsharing — a system in which employees are financially rewarded for reducing operating costs and working more efficiently. The reward may or may not be in relation to individual performance
  • gandhinagar — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
  • gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
  • garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
  • generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.
  • ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
  • ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
  • grand chain — a figure in formation dances, such as the lancers and Scottish reels, in which couples split up and move around in a circle in opposite directions, passing all other dancers until reaching their original partners
  • granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
  • graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
  • graphomania — The compulsion to write books.
  • grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
  • gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
  • gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
  • hacking run — (jargon)   (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
  • hadrian iiiSaint, Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 884–885.
  • hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
  • haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
  • hairsprings — Plural form of hairspring.
  • hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
  • hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
  • half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
  • half-ruinedruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • hallmarking — Present participle of hallmark.
  • halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
  • hammersteinOscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
  • hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • hand-tailor — to produce (a garment or the like) by individual workmanship.
  • 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.
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