10-letter words containing r, i, g, h
- grow light — a fluorescent light bulb designed to emit light of a wavelength conducive to plant growth.
- guard hair — the long, usually stiff outer hair protecting the underfur in certain animals.
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- gunfighter — a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the American West.
- gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
- hag-ridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hagiocracy — government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
- hagiolatry — the worship of saints.
- hair grass — any of various grasses having slender stems and leaves, especially one of the genus Deschampsia, as D. flexuosa or D. caespitosa.
- hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
- hairy frog — a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
- half tiger — a five-rand coin
- half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- hammerings — a series of punishments or beatings
- hamstrings — Plural form of hamstring.
- handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
- haranguing — Present participle of harangue.
- harbingers — Plural form of harbinger.
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard light — directed light, especially light whose beams are relatively parallel, producing distinct shadows and a harsher modeling effect on the subject.
- hard right — You use hard right to describe those members of a right wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- hardwiring — a fixed connection between electrical and electronic components and devices by means of wires (as distinguished from a wireless connection).
- harnessing — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- harrington — James. 1611–77, English republican and writer. He described his ideal form of government in Oceana (1656)
- harrisburg — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- head right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- head-right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- hearkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- heartening — to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
- heidelberg — a city in NW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany: university, founded 1386.
- heisenberg — Werner Karl [ver-nuh r kahrl] /ˈvɛr nər kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- 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.
- 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.