14-letter words containing a, u, g, h
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- in league with — along with, plotting with
- jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
- magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- marathon group — an encounter group that meets for an extended period of time, as eight hours to a week, in the belief that the resultant intensity and intimacy will lead to a more open expression of feelings.
- mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- michigan rummy — a variety of five hundred rummy in which each player scores his or her melds as played.
- milligram hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
- milligram-hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- muhammad ghori — Mohammed of Ghor.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- naphthyl group — Also called alpha-naphthyl group, alpha-naphthyl radical. the univalent group C 1 0 H 7 –, having a replaceable hydrogen atom in the first, or alpha, position; 1-naphthyl group.
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
- on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
- opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.