12-letter words containing h, i, g, s, t
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- phytogenesis — the origin and development of plants.
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- ranjit singh — ("Lion of the Punjab") 1780–1839, Indian maharaja: founder of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rights issue — Finance; offering of new shares to existing holders
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- set straight — to give the correct facts to; inform properly
- shipping ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- sightseeings — the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- sixty-eighth — next after the sixty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 68.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slip through — be undetected
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- south-facing — facing towards the south