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17-letter words containing a, u, g, h

  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • human engineering — an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker.
  • human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • hungarian goulash — goulash (def 1).
  • hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
  • induction heating — a method of heating a conducting material, as metal in a furnace, by using electromagnetic induction to establish a current in the material.
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • khingan mountains — a mountain system of NE China, in W Manchuria. Highest peak: 2034 m (6673 ft)
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
  • light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
  • loggerhead turtle — a sea turtle, Caretta caretta, having a large head: now greatly reduced in number.
  • low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
  • man enough to/for — If you say that a man is man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
  • medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • mountain mahogany — any of a genus (Cercocarpus) of W North American shrubs or small trees of the rose family, with lobed leaves and single dry fruits
  • natural logarithm — a logarithm having e as a base. Symbol: ln.
  • nautical twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 12° below the horizon
  • neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
  • neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
  • numbering machine — a handheld device for stamping numbers onto objects
  • organophosphorous — Misspelling of organophosphorus.
  • phonological rule — an operation in generative phonology that substitutes one sound or class of sounds for another in a phonological derivation.
  • photofluorography — photography of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination, used in x-ray examination of the lungs of large groups of people.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • rough puff pastry — a rich flaky pastry made with butter and used for pie-crusts, flans, etc
  • rough-legged hawk — a large hawk, Buteo lagopus, of the Northern Hemisphere, that feeds chiefly on small rodents.
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
  • sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • squatter's rights — the rights to a property claimed by someone who has occupied it in the owner's absence
  • squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
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