10-letter words containing h, i, g, r
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- right join — outer join
- right wing — members of a conservative or reactionary political party, or those opposing extensive political reform.
- right-hand — on the right.
- right-laid — noting a rope, strand, etc., laid in a right-handed, or clockwise, direction as one looks away along it (opposed to left-laid).
- right-wing — members of a conservative or reactionary political party, or those opposing extensive political reform.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- rightwards — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
- roof light — a window built into a roof to admit light and ventilation
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- rush light — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- sagamihara — a city on E central Honshu, in Japan, SW of Tokyo.
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- satyagrahi — an exponent of nonviolent resistance, esp as a form of political protest
- schoolgirl — a girl attending school.
- scratching — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- screeching — causing or uttering screeches: screeching bats.
- serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- shanghaier — a person who shanghais
- shangri la — an imaginary paradise on earth, especially a remote and exotic utopia.
- shangri-la — an imaginary paradise on earth, especially a remote and exotic utopia.
- sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
- sharenting — the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc of one’s children
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shimmering — a quivering or vibrating motion or image as produced by reflecting faint light or heat waves.
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- shipwright — a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shop right — the right of an employer to use an employee's invention without compensating the employee for the use, in cases where the invention was made at the place of and during the hours of employment.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- spirograph — an instrument for recording respiratory movements.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- springhaas — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.