12-letter words containing h, i, g, r
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- coin changer — a machine that gives change rapidly, as to a customer, typically operated by a manual keyboard and often used in association with a cash register.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- copyrighting — Present participle of copyright.
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dermographia — dermatographia.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- dining chair — high-backed chair used at dinner table
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- ditch-digger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- ditriglyphic — of or pertaining to ditriglyphs
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- eighth grade — the eighth year of school, when students are 12 to 14 years old
- ellipsograph — an instrument that draws ellipses
- english horn — musical instrument: similar to oboe
- epigraphical — Epigraphic.
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- everchanging — Which changes frequently and, presumably, will continue to do so forever.
- exhilarating — Making one feel very happy, animated, or elated; thrilling.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.