12-letter words containing a, s, t, i, g
- hardstanding — a hard surface on which cars, aircraft etc. may stand
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- hippophagist — a person who eats horseflesh.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- histological — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- 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.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- illegalities — Plural form of illegality.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- incrassating — Present participle of incrassate.
- indignations — Plural form of indignation.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
- initialising — to set (variables, counters, switches, etc.) to their starting values at the beginning of a program or subprogram.
- inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
- inseminating — Present participle of inseminate.
- inspissating — Present participle of inspissate.
- instigations — Plural form of instigation.
- integralness — Integrality.
- integrations — Plural form of integration.
- interchanges — Plural form of interchange.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- interrogates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interrogate.
- interspacing — Present participle of interspace.
- intransigent — refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- investigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of investigate.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.