8-letter words containing g, i, l, n, h
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- huddling — Present participle of huddle.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- hungrily — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hurdling — (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- hustling — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- inflight — done, served, or shown during an air voyage: an in-flight movie.
- inhaling — Present participle of inhale.
- knightly — characteristic of a knight; noble, courageous, and generous: knightly deeds.
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- lashings — a binding or fastening with a rope or the like.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- laughing — that laughs or is given to laughter: a laughing child.
- laughlin — James, IV, 1914–97, U.S. editor, publisher, and poet.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leeching — any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- leighton — Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- lezghian — a member of a people living mainly in the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation.
- light on — to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- lighting — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
- lunching — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
- lurching — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- lynching — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- mulching — (agriculture) Used for applying a mulch.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- nightowl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shelling — act of removing shell
- shelving — material for shelves.
- shieling — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shilingi — the currency of Tanzania
- shilling — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shillong — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- shingled — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shingles — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
- singlish — a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay
- slangish — rather slangy