14-letter words containing c, h, u, g
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- 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.
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- 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
- 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.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- nonchurchgoing — Not attending church.
- opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
- park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
- phloroglucinol — a white to yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in analytical chemistry and in the preparation of pharmaceuticals.
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
- quick thinking — problem-solving in an emergency
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
- rough as sacks — uncouth
- running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.