12-letter words containing g, u, s, h, i
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- laguna hills — a city in SW California.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- naughty bits — genitals
- nigiri-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- ophiophagous — eating snakes.
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
- quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rights issue — Finance; offering of new shares to existing holders
- roughhousing — the act of behaving in a boisterous or rough way
- running shoe — trainer, sneaker
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- shijiazhuang — a province in NE China. 81,479 sq. mi. (211,031 sq. km). Capital: Shijiazhuang.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- slip through — be undetected
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment