8-letter words containing n, i, g, h, t
- hatching — a shading line in drawing or engraving.
- haunting — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
- heisting — a robbery or holdup: Four men were involved in the armored car heist.
- highting — an oath; promise
- histogen — a region in a plant in which tissues differentiate.
- hitching — Present participle of hitch.
- hogtying — to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
- hoisting — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- huang ti — the legendary first emperor of China.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- hustings — (before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors.
- hustling — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- hutching — Present participle of hutch.
- hygenist — Alternative spelling of hygienist.
- in sight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
- inflight — done, served, or shown during an air voyage: an in-flight movie.
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- insights — Plural form of insight.
- ketching — Present participle of ketch.
- king-hit — a knockout punch.
- knighted — a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
- knightly — characteristic of a knight; noble, courageous, and generous: knightly deeds.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- leighton — Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- light on — to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- lighting — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- mightn't — Mightn't is a spoken form of 'might not'.
- mitching — Present participle of mitch.
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- nightowl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- notching — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- nothings — Plural form of nothing.
- on sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- outnight — to mention nights more often than
- penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
- phengite — a type of transparent selenite