13-letter words containing i, n, s, g, h
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hunting pinks — the traditional attire worn by people in Britain while fox hunting, the distinguishing feature of which is a scarlet jacket
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypostatizing — Present participle of hypostatize.
- hypothesising — Present participle of hypothesise.
- hypothesizing — to form a hypothesis.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- in all things — In all things means in every situation and at all times.
- in good hands — in protective care
- in good shape — person: fit, healthy
- inhomogeneous — lack of homogeneity.
- irish english — the English language as spoken in Ireland; Hiberno-English.
- issuing house — a financial institution that engages in finding capital for established companies or for private firms wishing to convert to public companies, by issuing shares on their behalf
- jogging shoes — shoes designed for jogging
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- know-nothings — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- 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.
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.