12-letter words containing s, i, g
- 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
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hydrargyrism — mercurialism.
- 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.
- hyperalgesia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hypergenesis — an origin, creation, or beginning.
- 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.
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- iguaçú falls — a waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina, on the Iguaçú River: divided into hundreds of separate falls by forested rocky islands. Width: about 4 km (2.5 miles). Height: 82 m (269 ft)
- illegalising — Present participle of illegalise.
- illegalities — Plural form of illegality.
- illegitimise — illegitimatize.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- immiserising — immiserate.
- immiserizing — immiserate.
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
- 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.
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- inconsisting — (obsolete) inconsistent.
- incontiguous — not continuous; unconnected; discrete
- incrassating — Present participle of incrassate.