12-letter words containing d, i, g, h, t
- greenlighted — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- guanethidine — a potent adrenergic neuron blocking agent, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
- handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
- hard-hitting — striking or capable of striking with force.
- hardstanding — a hard surface on which cars, aircraft etc. may stand
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- hazard light — Usually, hazard lights. an indicator light on a vehicle that flashes to warn that it is unexpectedly slowing down, reversing, or not moving.
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headlighting — The lighting associated with a headlight.
- heartrending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- high density — floppy disk
- high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
- high-pitched — Music. played or sung at a high pitch.
- highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- 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.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- inside right — (esp formerly) a player having mainly midfield and attacking roles
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- inward light — Inner Light.
- ketch-rigged — rigged in the manner of a ketch.
- knightlihood — Quality of being knightly.
- light bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- middle eight — the third contrasting eight-bar section of a 32-bar pop song
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- mythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.
- 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 editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- nightdresses — Plural form of nightdress.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- north riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in N England, now part of North Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.