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13-letter words containing i, n, l, g, h, t

  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
  • hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
  • hanging plant — a plant that grows downwards or hangs, often from a hanging basket or a high surface
  • hanging stile — the stile of a door, shutter, etc., by which it is hung.
  • health-giving — conducive to health; salutary
  • heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
  • heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
  • helminthology — the scientific study of worms, especially of parasitic worms.
  • hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
  • highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
  • homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
  • hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
  • humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • in all things — In all things means in every situation and at all times.
  • in mid-flight — during a flight; whilst airborne
  • intertriglyph — metope.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
  • light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
  • light fitting — fixture for attaching a lamp
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • light quantum — photon.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
  • lightning bug — firefly.
  • lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
  • lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • methemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
  • microlighting — the sport or act of flying in microlights
  • midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
  • mythologising — Present participle of mythologise.
  • mythologizing — Present participle of mythologize.
  • natural right — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • night shelter — an organization that provides dormitory-style accommodation for the homeless at night, or the accommodation so provided
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