12-letter words containing h, i, g, r
- timber right — ownership of standing timber with no rights to the land.
- time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
- time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
- torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- tramping hut — a hut in the bush for the use of trampers
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
- trichogramma — any minute wasp of the genus Trichogramma, comprising a beneficial group of chalcidflies that parasitize the eggs of a variety of insect pests.
- trichologist — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
- unaffrighted — to frighten.
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- unfrightened — not frightened
- unnourishing — not providing nourishment
- unrefreshing — not refreshing, rejuvenating, or invigorating
- unrightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- upright bass — double bass
- urban blight — deterioration of property in centre of city
- 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.
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- virgin birth — Theology. the doctrine or dogma that, by the miraculous agency of God, the birth of Christ did not impair or prejudice the virginity of Mary. Compare Immaculate Conception.
- virginia ham — a ham from a hog fed on corn and peanuts, cured in hickory smoke.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- wearing thin — If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone.
- weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
- weathertight — secure against wind, rain, 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.
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
- weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
- welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
- whereagainst — against which
- whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- white finger — a condition of a finger that results in a white appearance caused by a spasm of the blood vessels. It occurs with Raynaud's disease and with the long-term use of percussion tools
- white ginger — a tall plant, Hedychium coronarium, of the ginger family, native to tropical Asia, having long, broad leaves and showy, fragrant white flowers.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.