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13-letter words containing g, u, r, a, h

  • granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
  • grass sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as Sudan grass, grown for pasturage and hay.
  • groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
  • group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
  • gunters-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.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
  • hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
  • hold a grudge — be resentful
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
  • hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
  • logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
  • megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
  • mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • natural right — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
  • north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
  • novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
  • orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
  • orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • 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.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
  • right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • rough as bags — uncouth
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