11-letter words containing i, n, l, g, h
- in light of — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- inner light — the presence and inner working of God in the soul acting as a guiding spirit that is superior even to Scripture and unites man to Christ
- keelhauling — Present participle of keelhaul.
- king philip — one of the 12 apostles. Mark 3:18; John 1:43–48; 6:5–7.
- lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
- landholding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- languishing — becoming languid, in any way.
- latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.
- laugh lines — Laugh lines are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- lengthening — (linguistics) a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens.
- lengthiness — The property of being lengthy, longness.
- lichenology — the branch of biology that studies lichens.
- lightninged — a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- linguaphile — a language and word lover.
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- living hell — If you describe a place or situation as a living hell, you are emphasizing that it is extremely unpleasant.
- long-haired — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longshoring — the work or occupation of a longshoreman.
- longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
- lymphangial — pertaining to the lymphatic vessels.
- manhandling — to handle roughly.
- marshalling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- met-english — A Fortran-like language designed at Metropolitan Life in the early 1960s. It had support for variable-length bit fields. Most MetLife DP in the 1960s and 1970s was in Met-English. It was originally developed for Honeywell machines, but many programs still run under IBM MVS via a Honeywell emulator.
- methylating — Present participle of methylate.
- mishandling — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
- missolonghi — a town in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras: Byron died here 1824.
- moonlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of moonlight.
- moonlighter — the light of the moon.
- morgan hill — a town in W California.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- mpeg-4 hiln — MPEG-4 Harmonics, individual lines and noise
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- netherlings — underwear
- new english — Modern English.
- night latch — a door lock operated from the inside by a knob and from the outside by a key.
- night light — soft room light left on at night
- night table — a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.
- night-blind — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- night-light — a usually dim light kept burning at night, as in a child's bedroom.
- nightingale — Florence ("the Lady with the Lamp") 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.
- nightlights — Plural form of nightlight.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
- ornithology — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
- panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- paphlagonia — an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.
- philologian — a philologist.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- pigeon-hole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.