11-letter words starting with h
- hair roller — a small Velcro cylinder used for rolling up and curling or styling the hair
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- hair-raiser — a story, experience, etc., that is terrifying or thrilling.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
- hairsprings — Plural form of hairspring.
- hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
- hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hairstylist — A person who cuts and styles people's hair professionally.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half an ear — If you listen to something or someone with only half an ear, you do not give your full attention to what is being said.
- half an eye — a modicum of perceptiveness
- half asleep — in or into a state of sleep: He fell asleep quickly.
- half cocked — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
- half relief — mezzo-relievo.
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half volley — tennis: returning ball after it bounces
- half-asleep — in or into a state of sleep: He fell asleep quickly.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
- half-cooked — not cooked thoroughly
- half-decade — a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
- half-dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half-duplex — of or relating to the transmission of information in opposite directions but not simultaneously.
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- half-frozen — extremely cold
- half-gallon — a half of a gallon, equal to 2 quarts (1.9 liters).
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- half-length — something that is only half a full length or height, especially a portrait that shows only the upper half of the body, including the hands.