11-letter words containing s, h, i
- historicist — a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
- historicity — historical authenticity.
- historicize — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- historiette — a short historical story or anecdote
- historyless — Lacking history.
- histotrophy — A form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from its mother in the form of uterine secretions called histotroph.
- histrionics — an actor.
- histrionism — Histrionic behaviour.
- hit batsman — a batter who, having been struck by a pitch, is awarded first base.
- hit or miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- hit-or-miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- hitchhikers — Plural form of hitchhiker.
- hithersides — on the nearer side
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- hoggishness — The quality of being hoggish.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holluschick — a young male fur seal.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holophrasis — the expression of the ideas of a phrase or sentence in one word; polysynthesis: a language characterized by holophrasis.
- holophytism — the property of being holophytic
- holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
- holy spirit — the spirit of God.
- holystoning — Present participle of holystone.
- homecomings — Plural form of homecoming.
- homeoplasia — the formation, as in healing, of new tissue that is similar to the existing tissue.
- homeostasis — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homeostatic — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homeshoring — A migration of service employees from the office to the home, where such homes have proper communications equipment.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- homogenesis — reproduction in which the offspring resemble the parents and undergo the same cycle of development.
- homogenised — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homogenizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of homogenize.
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- homophilous — Homophilic.
- homophylies — Plural form of homophyly.
- homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homozygosis — the state of being a homozygote.
- hongshui he — a river in SW China, flowing SE to the Xiang Jiang. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorius ii — (Lamberto Scannabecchi) died 1130, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1124–30.
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- hooliganism — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
- horizontals — Plural form of horizontal.
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.
- horoscopist — One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
- horrisonant — Having an unpleasant sound.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful