12-letter words containing n, i, g, h, t
- magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
- match-fixing — the act of arranging the outcome of a sports match prior to its being played
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- moonlighting — the light of the moon.
- mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- multipathing — (computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static
- mythogenesis — the creation and development of myths
- naughty bits — genitals
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
- night letter — former name of overnight telegram. Abbreviation: NL.
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- night monkey — douroucouli.
- night office — the office for matins.
- night people — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night porter — A night porter is a person whose job is to be on duty at the main reception desk of a hotel throughout the night.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- night school — a school held in the evening, especially for working adults and others who are unable to attend school during the day.
- night sights — an optical instrument used to see and produce images in the dark
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- night terror — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- night vision — ability to see at night or in a dim light.
- nightclothes — Clothes worn to bed.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nightdresses — Plural form of nightdress.
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- nighty-night — good night
- ninety-eight — a cardinal number, 90 plus 8.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- nizhni tagil — a city in the Russian Federation in Asia, on the E slope of the Ural Mountains.
- non-matching — not matching: a nonmatching set of furniture.
- non-thinking — rational; reasoning: People are thinking animals.
- nonbreathing — not breathing
- north riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in N England, now part of North Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.
- north-facing — facing towards the north
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- nothing much — not a lot
- nothingarian — A person of no particular beliefs.
- or something — You use something in expressions such as 'or something' and 'or something like that' to indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just mentioned but you are not being exact.
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum