12-letter words containing h, i, g, e
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- coin changer — a machine that gives change rapidly, as to a customer, typically operated by a manual keyboard and often used in association with a cash register.
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanizing — denying or depriving of dignity
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dermographia — dermatographia.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- ditch-digger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- echogenicity — (medical) The ability to create an echo that can be detected in an ultrasound examination.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- eighteenthly — in the eighteenth place
- eighth grade — the eighth year of school, when students are 12 to 14 years old
- eighty-seven — a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky
- ellipsograph — an instrument that draws ellipses
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- enchantingly — In an enchanting manner.
- engine house — a building in which engines, as fire engines, railroad locomotives, etc., are housed
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- english horn — musical instrument: similar to oboe
- english self — a breed of short-haired guinea pig that is a single colour throughout
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- enlightening — Present participle of enlighten.