11-letter words containing l, i, g, h, t, e
- green light — traffic signal: go
- green-light — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- hatchelling — Present participle of hatchel.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- highlighted — to emphasize or make prominent.
- highlighter — a cosmetic used to emphasize some part of the face, as the eyes or the cheekbones.
- hla antigen — an antigen of the HLA group, designated by a letter (HLA-A, HLA-B, etc.) according to the chromosome locus on which the controlling HLA gene appears and additionally by a number (HLA-A1, HLA-A2, etc.) according to the order of discovery and identification.
- hot-selling — (of a good or product) that sells in large numbers
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- 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
- jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
- klieg light — a powerful type of arc light once widely used in motion-picture studios.
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- laser light — light which is generated by a laser
- laser sight — a device on a firearm that uses a laser to pinpoint impact.
- late blight — a disease of plants, especially potatoes, celery, etc., characterized by spotting, blighting, and withering or decay of the entire plant, caused by any of several fungi, as Phytophthora infestans or Septoria apii.
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
- lengthening — (linguistics) a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens.
- lengthiness — The property of being lengthy, longness.
- lethargical — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- light bread — white bread.
- light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- light guide — optical fiber.
- light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
- light meter — exposure meter.
- light opera — operetta.
- light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.
- light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
- light verse — verse that is written to entertain, amuse, or please, often by the subtlety of its form rather than by its literary quality.
- light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
- 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.
- lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
- lightvessel — A ship equipped with a very large lamp, the ship can be positioned to warn off other ships from dangerous locations. A sort of portable lighthouse.
- lightweight — light in weight.
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
- 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.