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9-letter words containing a, h, i, g

  • nightgear — nightclothes, that which is worn at night
  • nighthawk — any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
  • nightjars — Plural form of nightjar.
  • nightmare — a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
  • nightmary — (of a person) prone to having nightmares
  • nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
  • nightwear — night clothes.
  • niuzhuang — former name of Yingkou.
  • oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
  • oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
  • omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
  • omophagia — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
  • orphaning — Present participle of orphan.
  • phalangid — an arachnid that belongs to the family Phalangidae
  • phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
  • photalgia — pain, as in an eye, that is caused by intensity of light.
  • phreaking — phone phreak.
  • pied shag — a large New Zealand seabird, Phalacrocorax varius, with a white throat and underparts
  • pigheaded — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
  • preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
  • qiongshan — a port on N Hainan island, in S China: chief city of the island.
  • ram singh — 1816–85, Indian leader of a puritanical Sikh sect, the Kukas, who tried to remove the British from India through a policy of noncooperation
  • ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
  • rehashing — to work up (old material) in a new form.
  • rehearing — a second presentation of the evidence and arguments of a case before the court of original presentation.
  • reheating — heating again.
  • reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
  • reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
  • right-way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
  • rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • rightward — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
  • safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
  • sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
  • searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
  • shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shakingly — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
  • shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
  • shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
  • shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
  • sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
  • shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
  • shreading — furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
  • shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
  • sight gag — a comic effect produced by visual means rather than by spoken lines, as in a play or motion picture.
  • sightsman — a tourist guide
  • siphonage — the action of a siphon.
  • skiagraph — a radiograph.
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