12-letter words containing s, i, e, g, n
- hash-slinger — a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- hemstitching — Present participle of hemstitch.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- high density — floppy disk
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
- high-tension — subjected to or capable of operating under relatively high voltage: high-tension wire.
- histogenesis — the origin and development of tissues.
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- 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.
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- 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.
- 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.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hypergenesis — an origin, creation, or beginning.
- hypnogenesis — induction of the hypnotic state.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- illegalising — Present participle of illegalise.
- immiserising — immiserate.
- immiserizing — immiserate.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- imposingness — The quality of being imposing.
- in the gross — in bulk; as a whole
- in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
- incognisance — Alternative spelling of incognizance.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- indigenising — to make indigenous.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indigestible — not digestible; not easily digested.
- indigo snake — a large, deep-blue or brown harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, ranging from the southern U.S. to South America and invading burrows to prey on small mammals: the eastern subspecies D. corais couperi is now greatly reduced in number.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe