8-letter words containing s, g, h
- meshugge — Crazy, mad, senseless, insane.
- mightest — (archaic) second-person singular simple past of may.
- mighties — Plural form of mighty.
- misdight — to mismanage or treat badly
- mishigas — Craziness; silliness; tomfoolery; nonsense.
- mislight — To deceive or lead astray with a false light.
- moss hag — an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug.
- mug shot — Also called headshot. an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
- mugshots — Plural form of mugshot.
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- nighness — The quality or state of being nigh, or near.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- nothings — Plural form of nothing.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- on sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- outsight — the ability to see and understand external things clearly.
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- phishing — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- priggish — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- psyching — psych1 .
- pygmyish — resembling a pygmy
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- respighi — Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
- rhagades — linear cracks or scars found in the skin at the angles of the nose and mouth which are one of the later signs of congenital syphilis
- rightest — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rightish — somewhat right, esp politically
- rightism — conservatism, especially in politics.
- rightist — of or relating to conservative or reactionary political views; noting or characteristic of the political Right.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughish — rather rough: a roughish sea.
- saganash — (among the Algonquian Indians) a European
- sage hen — the sage grouse, especially the female.
- saguache — Sawatch.
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- schlager — a type of European popular music focusing on love and feelings
- schlegel — August Wilhelm von [ou-goo st vil-helm fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1767–1845, German poet, critic, and translator.
- scything — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- seahenge — a Bronze Age timber circle discovered off the coast of Norfolk in E England. Dating from 2050 bc, it is thought to have been used as a ceremonial site