hance /häns or hans/, also haunch /hönch or hönsh/

1. A curved rise from a lower to a higher part (nautical)
2. The arc of smaller radius at the springing of an elliptical or many-centred arch (architecture)

• tight-laces
• tight-lacing
• tight-lipped
• tightly
• tightly-knit
• tightness
• tightnesses
• tightrope
• tightropes
• tights
• tight spot
• tightwad
• tightwads
• tighty-whities
• tiglon
• tiglons
• the story goes
• the straight and narrow
• the sum of things
• the Supreme Being
• the sword of Damocles
• theta
• the tail wagging the dog
• the tane
• thetas