12-letter words containing h, a, t, i, n, g
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heartrending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heathenizing — Present participle of heathenize.
- heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
- heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
- hemangiomata — See under angioma.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high-hatting — to snub or treat condescendingly.
- highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hiking trail — a specially designated route for hikers to use
- hiv-negative — not infected with the HIV virus
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homologation — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- interchanger — a person or thing that interchanges
- interchanges — Plural form of interchange.
- inward light — Inner Light.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
- light-handed — short-handed.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- 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.
- match-fixing — the act of arranging the outcome of a sports match prior to its being played
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- multipathing — (computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static
- naughty bits — genitals
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.