15-letter words containing g, u, s, h, i
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
- in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
- indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
- ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- light in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
- lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- microhomologous — (genetics) Exhibiting microhomology.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
- neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
- out of sight of — not in sight
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- queen's english — king's English.
- queen's highway — king's highway.
- quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
- religious house — a convent or monastery.
- religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
- 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.
- running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- sausage machine — a machine for making sausages
- scrubbing brush — a handheld brush with short stiff bristles, used esp for scrubbing floors
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
- shunting engine — switch engine.
- sinkiang uighur — an autonomous region in NW China, bordering Tibet, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Pakistan, and India: formerly a province. 635,830 sq. mi. (1,646,800 sq. km). Capital: Ürümqi.
- sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
- south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.