12-letter words containing s, h, o, g, i
- histological — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- historiology — (obsolete) a discourse on history.
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- holmes light — a canister, attached to a life buoy or float, containing calcium carbonate and calcium phosphide, which ignite spontaneously on contact with the water, emitting conspicuous fire and smoke.
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- homozygosity — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- horseshoeing — Present participle of horseshoe.
- 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.
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hypnogenesis — induction of the hypnotic state.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- hypsographic — a branch of geography that deals with the measurement and mapping of the topography of the earth above sea level.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- in the gross — in bulk; as a whole
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- it's nothing — it is not important
- jogging shoe — an athletic shoe designed to be worn while jogging.
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- moeso-gothic — of the Moeso-Goths, their extinct East Germanic language, or their culture
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.