10-letter words containing i, n, h, g, e
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- singhalese — Sinhalese
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- 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.
- springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- straighten — make straight
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
- the living — those that are still alive
- the virgin — the constellation Virgo, the sixth sign of the zodiac
- then again — on the other hand, however
- theologian — a person versed in theology, especially Christian theology; divine.
- thickening — a making or becoming thick.
- thigh bone — femur: bone of the upper leg
- thinginess — the state or quality of being real or substantive
- thingstead — the meeting place of a Scandinavian assembly.
- thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
- thundering — of, relating to, or accompanied by thunder.
- tighten up — fasten more securely
- tightening — (of a part of the body) tensing or stiffening
- tonguefish — any of several flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, having the tail tapered to a point.
- trephining — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
- typhogenic — producing typhus or typhoid fever.
- un-english — not English; not characteristic of the English.
- unadhering — to stay attached; stick fast; cleave; cling (usually followed by to): The mud adhered to his shoes.
- unbehaving — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- unberthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
- unblighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- undersight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- unhygienic — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- unshingled — not shingled
- unweighing — not weighing or considering; thoughtless
- unweighted — not burdened or encumbered with a heavy load or with mental or emotional matters, problems, etc.
- upheapings — acts or instances of heaping up
- vinegarish — resembling vinegar, as in sourness or acidity: a vinegarish odor; a vinegarish disposition.
- vouchering — a person or thing that vouches.
- weathering — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
- weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
- weigh down — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- weight man — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
- weightings — Plural form of weighting.