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9-letter words containing t, h, i, n, g, l

  • moonlight — the light of the moon.
  • naughtily — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
  • night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
  • night-owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
  • nightclub — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
  • nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
  • nightglow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
  • nightless — the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
  • nightlife — the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion, as at a nightclub, theater, or the like.
  • nightlike — Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
  • nightlong — lasting all night: a nightlong snowfall.
  • nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.
  • oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
  • plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
  • potholing — exploring caves
  • ringlight — a circular electronic flash that surrounds a camera lens, used especially for even illumination in closeup photography.
  • shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
  • sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
  • sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • slighting — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
  • slingshot — a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
  • thralling — a person who is in bondage; slave.
  • thrilling — producing sudden, strong, and deep emotion or excitement.
  • thumbling — an extremely small person; a dwarf
  • undelight — the absence of delight
  • unhalting — faltering or hesitating, especially in speech.
  • unlighted — not made to start burning; unlit; unignited
  • unsightly — distasteful or unpleasant to look at: an unsightly wound; unsightly disorder.
  • vetchling — any of several slender, climbing plants belonging to the genus Lathyrus, of the legume family, similar to the vetch but having a winged or angular stem, as L. palustris, of North America.
  • whistling — an instrument for producing whistling sounds by means of the breath, steam, etc., as a small wooden or tin tube, a pipe, or a similar device with an air chamber containing a small ball that oscillates when air is forced through an opening, producing a high-pitched, warbling tone.
  • whittling — British Dialect. a knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.
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