10-letter words containing h, i, g, s, o
- nightspots — Plural form of nightspot.
- nonhousing — not concerned with or related to housing
- nonsighted — having no eyesight; unsighted; blind.
- nothingism — a trivial thing or matter
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.
- offshoring — the practice of moving employees or certain business activities to foreign countries as a way to lower costs, avoid taxes, etc.: the offshoring of software jobs to China.
- open sight — (on a firearm) a rear sight consisting of a notch across which the gunner aligns the front sight on the target.
- oughtlings — at all
- outgushing — Present participle of outgush.
- outshining — Present participle of outshine.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- phosgenite — a mineral, lead chlorocarbonate, Pb 2 Cl 2 CO 3 , occurring in crystals.
- physiology — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- 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.
- rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
- 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
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- schizogamy — reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.
- schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
- schoolgirl — a girl attending school.
- schooligan — a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- 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.
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- shoutingly — by way of shouting
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sighthound — gazehound.
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- siphonogam — a plant that is pollinated by siphonogamy
- smoketight — (of a door, etc) not allowing smoke to pass through
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- somethings — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- soothingly — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- spirograph — an instrument for recording respiratory movements.
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- tight shot — a shot in which the camera appears to be very close to the subject, as in an extreme closeup.
- tight spot — a serious, difficult, or dangerous situation
- tonguefish — any of several flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, having the tail tapered to a point.
- tough shit — Tough shit can be used as a way of telling someone that they will have to accept a situation they do not like because they have no choice.
- unshocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- unsoothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.