11-letter words containing n, i, g, h, e, s
- frighteners — Plural form of frightener.
- gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
- garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- gegenschein — a faint, elliptical patch of light in the night sky that appears opposite the sun, being a reflection of sunlight by meteoric material in space.
- generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.
- gentileschi — Artemisia [ahr-tuh-mizh-uh,, -mizh-ee-uh;; Italian ahr-te-mee-zyah] /ˌɑr təˈmɪʒ ə,, -ˈmɪʒ i ə;; Italian ˌɑr tɛˈmi zyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1593?–1652? Italian painter.
- geotechnics — the application of science in order to utilize the earth's natural resources in engineering projects
- ghastliness — The state of being ghastly.
- ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- girlishness — The quality of being girlish.
- give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
- goatishness — The state or condition of being goatish.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guest night — an evening when members of an institution are allowed to bring guests
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- 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.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hoggishness — The quality of being hoggish.
- 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.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- 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
- hypogenesis — underdevelopment of an organ or function, especially in the embryo.