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14-letter words containing g, u, s, h, i, n

  • murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
  • running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
  • shawinigan-sud — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, S of Shawinigan.
  • shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
  • shopping hours — the times during which shops are open
  • shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
  • shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.
  • single honours — a British university degree course that involves study in a single area
  • smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
  • social housing — Social housing is housing which is provided for rent or sale at a fairly low cost by housing associations and local councils.
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • spanish guinea — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
  • spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
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