12-letter words containing h, i, g, k
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- king-whiting — northern kingfish.
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- knightlihood — Quality of being knightly.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- know-nothing — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- night monkey — douroucouli.
- non-thinking — rational; reasoning: People are thinking animals.
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- stick-tights — any of several composite plants of the genus Bidens, having barbed achenes that adhere to clothing or fur.
- stinking ash — hoptree.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
- thanksgiving — the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God.
- thinking cap — a state of mind marked by reflection or concentration: If we put on our thinking caps, we may come up with the answer.
- thinkingness — the quality of being thoughtful or capable of rational or intellectual thought
- to think big — If you think big, you make plans on a large scale, often using a lot of time, effort, or money.
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- white knight — a hero who comes to the rescue.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time