11-letter words containing r, i, g, h
- hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
- histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- holographic — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- homeporting — Present participle of homeport.
- homeshoring — A migration of service employees from the office to the home, where such homes have proper communications equipment.
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- homogenizer — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homographic — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- 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.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- 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.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- 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.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybridizing — Present participle of hybridize.
- hydrargyria — mercurialism.
- hydrogenize — hydrogenate.
- hydrologist — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hydrolyzing — Present participle of hydrolyze.
- hygrometric — of or relating to the hygrometer or hygrometry.
- hygroscopic — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
- hypermiling — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperphagia — bulimia.
- hyperphagic — bulimia.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- hypogravity — The presence of an apparently decreased gravitational field (such as in an aircraft following a parabolic path).
- hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
- ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
- iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
- in strength — If a group turns out in strength, they arrive in large numbers.
- infographic — Often, infographics. a visual presentation of information in the form of a chart, graph, or other image accompanied by minimal text, intended to give an easily understood overview, often of a complex subject: a mass-transit infographic that uses different colors to represent different modes of transportation.
- ingathering — a gathering in, especially of farm products; harvest.
- inner light — the presence and inner working of God in the soul acting as a guiding spirit that is superior even to Scripture and unites man to Christ
- interchange — to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
- intergrowth — growth or growing together, as of one thing with or into another.
- iron sights — conventional non-telescopic sights on a rifle
- isogeotherm — an imaginary line connecting all points within the earth having the same mean temperature.
- jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
- jet fighter — aeronautics
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- junior high — lower secondary school
- kashmir rug — a handmade Oriental rug that is woven flat without pile and covered entirely with embroidered patterns of colored yarns.
- kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
- khan tengri — a mountain in central Asia, on the border between Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of W China. Height: 6995 m (22 951 ft)