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9-letter words containing g, i, l, n, h

  • shielding — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
  • shingling — 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.
  • shiningly — in a shining or bright manner
  • shoveling — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
  • shrilling — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
  • shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
  • shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
  • sighingly — accompanied by sighing
  • sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
  • sleighing — a light vehicle on runners, usually open and generally horse-drawn, used especially for transporting persons over snow or ice.
  • sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • slighting — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
  • slingshot — a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
  • sloughing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
  • spanglish — Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, especially American, words and expressions.
  • thralling — a person who is in bondage; slave.
  • thrilling — producing sudden, strong, and deep emotion or excitement.
  • thumbling — an extremely small person; a dwarf
  • undelight — the absence of delight
  • unhalting — faltering or hesitating, especially in speech.
  • unhealing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  • unlighted — not made to start burning; unlit; unignited
  • unsightly — distasteful or unpleasant to look at: an unsightly wound; unsightly disorder.
  • vetchling — any of several slender, climbing plants belonging to the genus Lathyrus, of the legume family, similar to the vetch but having a winged or angular stem, as L. palustris, of North America.
  • well-nigh — very nearly; almost: It's well-nigh bedtime.
  • wheedling — to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
  • wheelings — Plural form of wheeling.
  • whiffling — to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly.
  • whiningly — With a whining sound.
  • whistling — an instrument for producing whistling sounds by means of the breath, steam, etc., as a small wooden or tin tube, a pipe, or a similar device with an air chamber containing a small ball that oscillates when air is forced through an opening, producing a high-pitched, warbling tone.
  • whittling — British Dialect. a knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.
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