12-letter words containing gh
- a good laugh — If you describe someone as a laugh or a good laugh, you like them because they are amusing and fun to be with.
- a rough ride — If you say that someone faces a rough ride, you mean that things are going to be difficult for them because people will criticize them a lot or treat them badly.
- affrightedly — in a frightened or alarmed manner
- affrightment — the act of causing fear or alarm
- afghan hound — a tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat
- aforethought — premeditated (esp in the phrase malice aforethought)
- afterthought — If you do or say something as an afterthought, you do or say it after something else as an addition, perhaps without careful thought.
- airfreighted — Simple past tense and past participle of airfreight.
- airtightness — the quality of being airtight
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- anchor light — a 32-point light, visible from at least two miles away, shown at night near the bow and not more than 20 feet (6 meters) above the deck of a vessel lying at anchor.
- apple blight — an aphid, Eriosoma lanigera, that is covered with a powdery waxy secretion and infests apple trees
- attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
- baba ghanouj — a Middle Eastern dish, a puree of broiled eggplant usually with garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, eaten with pita as an appetizer
- backlighting — Movies, Television. a light source placed behind an actor, object, or scene to create a highlight that separates the subject from the background.
- backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
- bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
- basic weight — basis weight.
- basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- belt highway — beltway (def 1).
- bengal light — a firework or flare that burns with a steady bright blue light, formerly used as a signal
- bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
- birth weight — the amount a baby weighs when first born
- black knight — a person or firm that makes an unwelcome takeover bid for a company
- blow through — to leave; make off
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- borough hall — a building housing the administrative offices of a borough.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- bushfighting — fighting in the bush
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- checkweigher — a person or machine that measures the weight of commodities on a production line or in a colliery
- civil rights — Civil rights are the rights that people have in a society to equal treatment and equal opportunities, whatever their race, sex, or religion.
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- clickthrough — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- cockfighting — The sport (illegal in certain countries) of setting two cocks to fight each other. Fighting cocks often have had their legs fitted with metal spurs.
- come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
- contact high — a state of altered consciousness caused by inhaling the drugs other people are smoking
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
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