12-letter words containing a, l, h, i, s, g
- 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.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- oscillograph — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- qinling shan — mountain range in NC China, extending across Gansu, Shaanxi, & Henan provinces: highest peak, c. 13,500 ft (4,115 m)
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sailing ship — a large ship equipped with sails.
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- space flight — journey into outer space
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
- walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler