12-letter words containing t, i, g, h, e, a
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hellgrammite — the aquatic larva of a dobsonfly, used as bait in fishing.
- hemangiomata — See under angioma.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- high voltage — high-power electricity
- high-voltage — operating on or powered by high voltage: a high-voltage generator.
- highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
- hiv-negative — not infected with the HIV virus
- 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.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hypergravity — The presence of an apparently 'increased' gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- interchanger — a person or thing that interchanges
- interchanges — Plural form of interchange.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- margrethe ii — born 1940, queen of Denmark since 1972.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- megalecithal — having a large amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
- metrorrhagia — nonmenstrual discharge of blood from the uterus; uterine hemorrhage.
- mother image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's mother and often the object of emotions felt toward the mother
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nightingales — Plural form of nightingale.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- nonbreathing — not breathing
- oesophagitis — Alternative spelling of esophagitis.