12-letter words containing h, i, g, l, o
- phytobiology — the branch of biology dealing with plants.
- pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
- pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polytriglyph — (in classical architecture) an intercolumniation of at least four triglyphs.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- 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
- rough collie — a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- 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
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stoichiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the cellular components of animal tissues
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- 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.
- technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- technologize — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
- thiodiglycol — C4H10O2S, a yellowish viscous liquid used as a solvent
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- to the gills — the respiratory organ of aquatic animals, as fish, that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
- trichologist — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.