13-letter words containing g, i, l, n, h
- humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- in all things — In all things means in every situation and at all times.
- in mid-flight — during a flight; whilst airborne
- intertriglyph — metope.
- irish english — the English language as spoken in Ireland; Hiberno-English.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- l-head engine — an internal-combustion engine having the intake and exhaust valves arranged in a chamber along one side of the pistons.
- lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- laughing gull — a North American gull, Larus atricilla, having a high, laughlike call.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
- leghemoglobin — a hemoglobinlike red pigment in the root nodules of leguminous plants, as soybean, that is essential for nitrogen fixation.
- li hung-chang — 1823–1901, Chinese statesman.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- light fitting — fixture for attaching a lamp
- light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
- light quantum — photon.
- light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
- lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
- lightning bug — firefly.
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- mannheim gold — a brass alloy used to imitate gold; red brass.
- marching girl — one of a team of girls dressed in fancy uniform who perform marching formations
- methemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- microlighting — the sport or act of flying in microlights
- midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
- much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.