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11-letter words containing h, i, g, r

  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • streetlight — a light, usually supported by a lamppost, for illuminating a street or road.
  • strip light — A strip light is an electric light in the form of a long tube.
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
  • surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
  • swipe right — to move a finger from left to right across a touchscreen in order to approve an image
  • switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
  • sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
  • take fright — be scared off
  • tax sharing — revenue sharing.
  • teeth-ridge — alveolar ridge.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • the diggers — a radical English Puritan group, led by Gerrard Winstanley, which advocated communal ownership of land (1649–50)
  • the gherkin — the nickname of a bluish cigar-shaped office block in the City of London; height 180 m (585 ft); opened in in 2004
  • the giraffe — the constellation Camelopardalis
  • the gracchi — the brothers Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman tribunes and reformers
  • the strings — violins, violas, cellos, and double basses collectively
  • there again — on second thoughts, however
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • third grade — (in the US) the third year of school, when children are eight or nine years old
  • thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
  • threatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • thrillingly — producing sudden, strong, and deep emotion or excitement.
  • thrummingly — in a thrumming manner or by way of thrumming
  • thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
  • tiger shark — a large shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, inhabiting warm seas, noted for its voracious habits.
  • tight-arsed — inhibited or conservative in attitude or behaviour
  • tigrishness — the quality or state of being tigrish
  • to go right — If you say that things are going right, you mean that your life or a situation is developing as you intended or expected and you are pleased with it.
  • toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
  • tomographic — relating to tomography
  • topographic — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
  • tragic hero — a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat: Oedipus, the classic tragic hero.
  • triggerfish — any of various compressed, deep-bodied fishes of the genus Balistes and allied genera, chiefly inhabiting tropical seas, having an anterior dorsal fin with three stout spines: some are edible while others are poisonous.
  • trothplight — engagement to be married; betrothal.
  • troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
  • turkish rug — any of a large variety of handwoven rugs produced in Turkey, characterized by coarse, heavy yarn and a long, uneven pile.
  • twi-nighter — a twi-night doubleheader.
  • typographia — matter relating to printing or printers
  • typographic — of or relating to typography.
  • tyroglyphid — a tick or mite of the family Tyroglyphidae
  • ultra-right — having extreme right-wing views
  • un-charming — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
  • unbreathing — not breathing; holding the breath
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