12-letter words containing g, e, t, i, n, h
- light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
- mythogenesis — the creation and development of myths
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- 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 letter — former name of overnight telegram. Abbreviation: NL.
- night monkey — douroucouli.
- night office — the office for matins.
- night people — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night porter — A night porter is a person whose job is to be on duty at the main reception desk of a hotel throughout the night.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- night terror — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nightdresses — Plural form of nightdress.
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- ninety-eight — a cardinal number, 90 plus 8.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- nonbreathing — not breathing
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- or something — You use something in expressions such as 'or something' and 'or something like that' to indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just mentioned but you are not being exact.
- orthogenesis — Biology. Also called orthoselection. evolution of a species proceeding by continuous structural changes in a single lineage without presenting a branching pattern of descent. a theory that the evolution of a species in a continuous, nonbranching manner is due to a predetermined series of alterations intrinsic to the species and not subject to natural selection.
- orthogenetic — pertaining to or exhibiting orthogenesis.
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- overnighting — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
- patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- pathogenesis — the production and development of disease.
- pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
- photo-ageing — premature wrinkling of the skin caused by overexposure to sunlight
- photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
- photosetting — photocompose.
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phytogenesis — the origin and development of plants.
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.