11-letter words starting with h
- haplography — the accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, as in Missippi for Mississippi.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- happinesses — the quality or state of being happy.
- happy event — the birth of a child
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- haptotropic — relating to haptotropism
- harassingly — in a harassing manner
- harassments — Plural form of harassment.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hard ground — an etching ground applied to the surface of a plate held over a small flame and spread by a dabber or brayer. Compare soft ground (def 1).
- hard hitter — a bowler hat
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
- hard liquor — spirits, alcoholic drink
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hard-coated — having a coarsely textured coat, as a dog.
- hard-earned — A hard-earned victory or hard-earned cash is a victory or money that someone deserves because they have worked hard for it.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- hard-handed — oppressive or tyrannical; stern or cruel.
- hard-headed — not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
- hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardhearted — unfeeling; unmerciful; pitiless.
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardly ever — rarely
- hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- hardpressed — Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- hardwareman — (obsolete) An ironmonger.
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- harem pants — a kind of baggy trousers worn by women, made of lightweight fabric and closefitting at the ankles
- hariolation — the act of divining or prophesying
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.