15-letter words containing g, u, r, a, h
- great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
- guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
- haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hunter-gatherer — a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- inguinal hernia — a common type of hernia in which a loop of the intestine protrudes directly through a weak area of the abdominal wall in the groin region.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
- omnium gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
- omnium-gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
- phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- phosphate group — the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.
- photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
- pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
- rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.