11-letter words containing i, n, s, g
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
- heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hemisecting — Present participle of hemisect.
- higgs boson — a hypothetical type of heavy, electrically neutral particle with zero spin.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hoggishness — The quality of being hoggish.
- holystoning — Present participle of holystone.
- homecomings — Plural form of homecoming.
- homeshoring — A migration of service employees from the office to the home, where such homes have proper communications equipment.
- homogenesis — reproduction in which the offspring resemble the parents and undergo the same cycle of development.
- homogenised — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homogenizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of homogenize.
- hongshui he — a river in SW China, flowing SE to the Xiang Jiang. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- hooliganism — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hot springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- hot-selling — (of a good or product) that sells in large numbers
- hsing sheng — the process by which many Chinese characters were formed through the combination of two symbols, one phonographic and one logographic, into a single character.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
- hylogenesis — the formation or coming into being of matter
- hymnologist — A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
- hypnotising — Present participle of hypnotise.
- hypogenesis — underdevelopment of an organ or function, especially in the embryo.
- ice fishing — the act or practice of fishing through a hole cut in the ice.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
- ignobleness — The state or condition of being ignoble.
- ignominious — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
- ignorantest — (nonstandard) Superlative form of ignorant.
- ignorantism — The support or promotion of ignorance.
- ignosticism — The philosophical position that beliefs regarding the existence or non-existence of God (capitalized) all assume too much, especially because there is not just one universal definition of the word
- impregnates — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- imprisoning — Present participle of imprison.
- improvising — Present participle of improvise.
- in progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- in strength — If a group turns out in strength, they arrive in large numbers.
- inaugurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inaugurate.
- incongruous — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.