12-letter words containing a, h, i, g, n, d
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hardinggrass — a perennial grass of the genus Phalaris, found in South Africa, Australia, and in North America where it is used as an animal foodstuff
- hardstanding — a hard surface on which cars, aircraft etc. may stand
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headlighting — The lighting associated with a headlight.
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- heartrending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- hedge laying — the art or practice of making or maintaining a hedge by cutting branches partway through, laying them horizontally, and pegging them in position in order to create a strong thick hedge
- helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- high and dry — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- inward light — Inner Light.
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- land-holding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
- light-handed — short-handed.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- pudding-head — a stupid person
- riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- running hand — script or calligraphy characterized by uniformly slanted letters that are written quickly and connected by long, continuous strokes of the pen.
- running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment