12-letter words containing n, i, g, h, t
- honor bright — upon my honor; really and truly: I did sweep the floor, honor bright.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
- hunting pink — scarlet
- hypergenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- in the gross — in bulk; as a whole
- in the right — If someone has behaved in a way which is morally or legally right, you can say that they are in the right. You usually use this expression when the person is involved in an argument or dispute.
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
- in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- inside right — (esp formerly) a player having mainly midfield and attacking roles
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- interchanger — a person or thing that interchanges
- interchanges — Plural form of interchange.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- intermeshing — That mesh between one another.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- inward light — Inner Light.
- it's nothing — it is not important
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- king-whiting — northern kingfish.
- knightlihood — Quality of being knightly.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- know-nothing — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
- light client — thin client
- light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).