12-letter words containing h, i, g, l, e
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- light-weight — light displacement.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lightweights — Plural form of lightweight.
- line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
- linear graph — graph (def 2b).
- linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- megacephalic — macrocephalic.
- megalecithal — having a large amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- middle eight — the third contrasting eight-bar section of a 32-bar pop song
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- mythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.
- mythologizer — One who, or that which, mythologizes.
- mythologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythologize.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- night letter — former name of overnight telegram. Abbreviation: NL.
- night people — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- oligochaetes — Plural form of oligochaete.
- oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
- oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- petroglyphic — relating to or having the characteristics of a petroglyph or carving made in rock
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- phlegmagogic — a medication that is intended to dislodge and evacuate mucus from the respiratory system
- photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.