11-letter words containing r, h, a, g, i
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- heyagashira — (sumo) the rikishi of highest rank in a particular heya.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hierography — a treatise on religion or sacred things
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high arctic — the regions of Canada, esp the northern islands, within the Arctic Circle
- high german — the group of West Germanic languages that in a.d. c400–c500 underwent the second consonant shift described by Grimm's Law. Abbreviation: HG.
- high-hatter — to snub or treat condescendingly.
- higher rate — (in Britain) a rate of income tax that is higher than the basic rate and becomes payable on taxable income in excess of a specified limit
- highhearted — Alt form high-hearted.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hiring hall — an employment office operated by a union for placing members in jobs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hydrargyria — mercurialism.
- 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).
- 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.
- interchange — to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
- jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- kashmir rug — a handmade Oriental rug that is woven flat without pile and covered entirely with embroidered patterns of colored yarns.
- 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)
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
- lagomorphic — Shaped like a hare.
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- laser light — light which is generated by a laser
- laser sight — a device on a firearm that uses a laser to pinpoint impact.
- latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.