12-letter words containing i, n, a, g, e
- hash-slinger — a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headlighting — The lighting associated with a headlight.
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heartrending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heathenizing — Present participle of heathenize.
- heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
- hedge laying — the art or practice of making or maintaining a hedge by cutting branches partway through, laying them horizontally, and pegging them in position in order to create a strong thick hedge
- heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
- heilongjiang — a province in NE China, S of the Amur River. 108,880 sq. mi. (281,999 sq. km). Capital: Harbin.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
- hemangiomata — See under angioma.
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- high finance — large-scale financial transactions or institutions.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- hiv-negative — not infected with the HIV virus
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- illegalising — Present participle of illegalise.
- illegalizing — Present participle of illegalize.
- imagineering — the implementing of creative ideas into practical form.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- impregnating — Present participle of impregnate.
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in agreement — of the same opinion
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- in danger of — liable to
- in high gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- in regard to — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.