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11-letter words containing t, a, i, l, g, h

  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hightail it — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
  • hightailing — Present participle of hightail.
  • hla antigen — an antigen of the HLA group, designated by a letter (HLA-A, HLA-B, etc.) according to the chromosome locus on which the controlling HLA gene appears and additionally by a number (HLA-A1, HLA-A2, etc.) according to the order of discovery and identification.
  • humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
  • jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
  • lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
  • large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • laser light — light which is generated by a laser
  • laser sight — a device on a firearm that uses a laser to pinpoint impact.
  • latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.
  • late blight — a disease of plants, especially potatoes, celery, etc., characterized by spotting, blighting, and withering or decay of the entire plant, caused by any of several fungi, as Phytophthora infestans or Septoria apii.
  • lead weight — a weight made of lead
  • leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
  • lethargical — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
  • light bread — white bread.
  • light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
  • light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
  • light opera — operetta.
  • light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.
  • light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
  • light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
  • light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
  • light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
  • lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
  • lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
  • lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
  • lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
  • logarithmic — pertaining to a logarithm or logarithms.
  • logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
  • methylating — Present participle of methylate.
  • mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
  • night latch — a door lock operated from the inside by a knob and from the outside by a key.
  • night table — a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.
  • nightingale — Florence ("the Lady with the Lamp") 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • oligochaete — any of various annelids of the family Oligochaeta, including earthworms and certain small, freshwater species, having locomotory setae sunk directly in the body wall.
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologist — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
  • range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
  • right angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one quarter of the circle; the angle formed by two perpendicular lines that intersect; an angle of 90°.
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • snatchingly — in a snatching manner
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • starlighted — lit by the stars
  • tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
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