9-letter words containing s, g, h
- haggadist — one of the writers of the Aggadah.
- halt sign — a sign instructing traffic to stop and then proceed only if the road ahead is clear
- hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- hangerson — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangnails — Plural form of hangnail.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- harassing — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
- hardgoods — durable goods, such as automobiles, furniture, etc.
- hardgrass — any of several types of coarse grass
- harigalds — the intestines of an animal
- hastening — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- hatchings — Plural form of hatching.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- have legs — If an idea, plan, or activity has legs, it is likely to continue or succeed.
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- hedgehogs — Plural form of hedgehog.
- hedgehops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hedgehop.
- hedgeless — Without hedges.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heightism — discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, especially discrimination against short people.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- helsingør — a port in NE Denmark, in NE Zealand: site of Kronborg Castle (16th century), famous as the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop: 35 002 (2004 est)
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- here goes — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- heritages — Plural form of heritage.
- hexagrams — Plural form of hexagram.
- hiccoughs — Plural form of hiccough.
- higginson — Thomas Wentworth Storrow [stor-oh] /ˈstɒr oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–1911, U.S. clergyman, author, and social reformer.
- high mass — a Mass celebrated according to the complete rite, in which the liturgy is sung by the celebrant.
- high seas — the sea or ocean beyond the three-mile limit or territorial waters of a country.
- high sign — a gesture, glance, or facial expression used as a surreptitious signal to warn, admonish, or inform.
- high spot — The high spot of an event or activity is the most exciting or enjoyable part of it.
- high tops — denoting a sneaker that covers the ankle.
- high-rise — (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- high-risk — very dangerous
- high-step — to walk or run by raising the legs higher than normal.
- high-test — (of gasoline) boiling at a relatively low temperature.
- highballs — Plural form of highball.
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- highliest — Superlative form of highly.
- highlites — Misspelling of highlights.
- highnesse — Archaic spelling of highness.