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13-letter words containing g, l, u, h

  • nonhomologous — having the same or a similar relation; corresponding, as in relative position or structure.
  • organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
  • phyllophagous — (of an organism) feeding on leaves.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pull the plug — If someone in a position of power pulls the plug on a project or on someone's activities, they use their power to stop them continuing.
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
  • running light — any of various lights required to be displayed by a vessel or aircraft operating between sunset and sunrise.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
  • toll thorough — a payment exacted by a municipal government for the right to use a highway, bridge, or the like; toll.
  • touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
  • ultrarightist — ultraright.
  • unchallenging — not challenging or difficult; not providing a challenge; easy
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • unenlightened — to give intellectual or spiritual light to; instruct; impart knowledge to: We hope the results of our research will enlighten our colleagues.
  • unflinchingly — not flinching; unshrinking: unflinching courage.
  • unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
  • unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
  • unsightliness — distasteful or unpleasant to look at: an unsightly wound; unsightly disorder.
  • untheological — not theological; not of or pertaining to the nature of theology
  • unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • work-furlough — work-release.
  • zaghlul pashaSaad [sahd] /sɑd/ (Show IPA), c1860–1927, Egyptian political leader: first prime minister 1924–27.
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