10-letter words containing g, i, n, h
- genethliac — of or relating to birthdays or to the position of the stars at one's birth.
- genophobia — The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
- genophobic — Relating to or characteristic of genophobia or genophobes.
- genteelish — genteel-like
- geocaching — the outdoor sport or game of searching for hidden objects by using Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates posted on the Internet.
- geotechnic — relating to geotechnics
- gesundheit — Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.
- get behind — support: a cause, etc.
- ghibelline — a member of the aristocratic party in medieval Italy and Germany that supported the claims of the German emperors against the papacy: politically opposed to the Guelphs.
- gillingham — a town in SE England, in Medway unitary authority, Kent, on the Medway estuary: former dockyards. Pop: 98 403 (2001)
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- go fishing — try to catch fish
- go in with — share cost
- good night — enjoyable evening, night
- good thing — (convention) (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "Yacc is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.
- good-night — a farewell or leave-taking: He said his good-nights before leaving the party.
- goodnights — Plural form of goodnight.
- grandchild — a child of one's son or daughter.
- grassfinch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- greenfinch — any finch of the genus Carduelis, of Europe and Asia, having green and yellow plumage, especially C. chloris (European greenfinch)
- greenlight — (transitive) To approve; to permit to proceed.
- griffinish — indicative of a griffin, being a newcomer to the Orient
- grindhouse — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- groundfish — (fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor.
- groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
- guggenheim — Daniel, 1856–1930, U.S. industrialist and philanthropist.
- guinea hen — the female of the guinea fowl.
- gumshoeing — Present participle of gumshoe.
- gunfighter — a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the American West.
- gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
- gynephobia — an abnormal fear of women.
- gynophilic — Woman-loving.
- gynophobia — Extreme or irrational fear of women or of the female.
- gynophobic — relating to a dread or hatred of women
- hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
- haddington — former name of East Lothian.
- hag-ridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
- haligonian — of or relating to Halifax, Nova Scotia, or to Halifax, England.
- hammerings — a series of punishments or beatings
- hamstrings — Plural form of hamstring.
- hand tight — (of a setscrew, nut, etc.) as tight as it can be made by hand, without the aid of a tool.
- handseling — Present participle of handsel.
- handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
- hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
- happenings — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- haranguing — Present participle of harangue.
- harbingers — Plural form of harbinger.
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.