11-letter words containing r, h, i
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- horn-rimmed — having the frames or rims made of horn or tortoise shell, or plastic that simulates either of these: horn-rimmed glasses.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horoscopist — One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
- horripilant — causing horripilation, ie goose flesh, or the flesh to creep
- horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
- horrisonant — Having an unpleasant sound.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- horror film — a film with a frightening storyline and atmosphere
- horse rider — a person riding a horse
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
- horseriders — Plural form of horserider.
- hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
- hot springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
- hot working — Hot working is a process in which a metal is shaped under pressure at a fairly high temperature.
- hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- housesitter — Alternative spelling of house-sitter.
- housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- humidifiers — Plural form of humidifier.
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hybrid bill — (in Parliament) a public bill to which the standing orders for private business apply; a bill having a general application as well as affecting certain private interests
- hybrid chip — an integrated circuit that comprises both diffused active devices and thin-film components.
- hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
- hybrid rock — an igneous rock formed by molten magma incorporating pre-existing rock through which it passes
- hybridizing — Present participle of hybridize.
- hydnocarpic — of or relating to hydnocarpic acid
- hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hydrargyria — mercurialism.
- hydrobromic — of or derived from hydrobromic acid.
- hydrochoric — of or relating to dispersing seeds through water or to a hydrochore
- hydrocyanic — of or derived from hydrocyanic acid.
- hydrogenize — hydrogenate.
- hydrologist — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.