11-letter words starting with he
- heart-whole — not in love.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heartbreaks — Plural form of heartbreak.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- heartedness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being hearted.
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- hearthstone — a stone forming a hearth.
- heartlessly — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
- heartseases — Plural form of heartsease.
- heartshaped — Alternative form of heart-shaped.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heartthrobs — Plural form of heartthrob.
- heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- heat engine — a mechanical device designed to transform part of the heat entering it into work.
- heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- heath aster — a North American wildflower (Aster ericoides) of the composite family, with small, stiff leaves and white flowers, growing in dry, open places; dog fennel
- heath grass — a European grass, Sieglingia decumbens, growing in spongy, wet, cold soils.
- heathenesse — (obsolete) heathendom.
- heathenized — Simple past tense and past participle of heathenize.
- heathenness — Quality of being heathen.
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- heatseekers — Plural form of heatseeker.
- heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
- heaven-sent — providentially opportune: A heaven-sent rain revived the crops.
- heavenliest — Superlative form of heavenly.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heavy chain — a type of polypeptide chain present in an immunoglobulin molecule
- heavy cream — thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- heavy metal — big iron
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- heavy-laden — carrying a heavy load; heavily laden: a heavy-laden cart.
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hebephrenia — a type of schizophrenia characterized by emotionless, incongruous, or silly behavior, intellectual deterioration, and hallucinations, frequently beginning insidiously during adolescence.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- heckelphone — A woodwind instrument resembling a large oboe, with a range about an octave lower.
- hectocotyli — Plural form of hectocotylus.
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- hectometers — Plural form of hectometer.
- hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.