8-letter words containing s, g, h
- hogshead — a large cask, especially one containing from 63 to 140 gallons (238 to 530 liters).
- hoisting — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- holdings — An area of land held by lease.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- homologs — Plural form of homolog.
- hoosegow — a jail.
- horndogs — Plural form of horndog.
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hostages — Plural form of hostage.
- housings — Plural form of housing.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- hsinking — Older Spelling. former name of Changchun.
- hugeness — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- huggings — Plural form of hugging.
- 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.
- hygenist — Alternative spelling of hygienist.
- hygienes — Also, hygienics. the science that deals with the preservation of health.
- in sight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
- insights — Plural form of insight.
- inveighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inveigh.
- ishiguro — Kazuo [kah-zoo-oh,, kaz-oo-oh] /ˈkɑ zuˌoʊ,, ˈkæz uˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jingoish — Jingoistic.
- kingfish — any of several marine food fishes of the drum family, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, found off the E coast of the U.S.
- kingship — the state, office, or dignity of a king.
- langshan — one of a breed of large, black or white, white-skinned Asiatic domestic chickens, having a single comb and feathered shanks and producing dark-brown eggs.
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- laoighis — a county in Leinster, in the central Republic of Ireland. 623 sq. mi. (1615 sq. km). County seat: Port Laoighise.
- lashings — a binding or fastening with a rope or the like.
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- lighters — Plural form of lighter.
- lightest — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- lightish — rather light in weight.
- log ship — log chip.
- longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
- longshot — Alternative spelling of long shot.
- lugholes — Plural form of lughole.
- lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- mashgiah — an inspector appointed by a board of Orthodox rabbis to guard against any violation of the Jewish dietary laws in food processing plants, meat markets, etc., where food presumed to be kosher is prepared or served for public consumption.
- mashings — Plural form of mashing.
- mesh bag — bag made of netting
- meshugah — Alternative form of meshugge.
- meshugas — craziness
- meshugga — crazy; insane.