8-letter words containing g, u, s, h
- hangouts — Plural form of hangout.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- highbush — Being, or coming from, a bush of high stature (used in names of certain fruits, such as highbush blueberry and highbush cranberry).
- hocusing — Present participle of hocus.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- housings — Plural form of housing.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- hugeness — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- huggings — Plural form of hugging.
- hustings — (before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors.
- hustling — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- ishiguro — Kazuo [kah-zoo-oh,, kaz-oo-oh] /ˈkɑ zuˌoʊ,, ˈkæz uˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- lugholes — Plural form of lughole.
- lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
- meshugah — Alternative form of meshugge.
- meshugas — craziness
- meshugga — crazy; insane.
- meshugge — Crazy, mad, senseless, insane.
- mug shot — Also called headshot. an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
- mugshots — Plural form of mugshot.
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- outsight — the ability to see and understand external things clearly.
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughish — rather rough: a roughish sea.
- saguache — Sawatch.
- shangqiu — a city in E Henan province, in E China.
- shantung — Shandong.
- shouting — loud cries, yells
- shrugged — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- shucking — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- shunning — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- shunting — the act or job of manoeuvring coaches
- sloughed — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
- souchong — a variety of black tea grown in India and Sri Lanka.
- southing — a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.
- sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
- sphygmus — the pulse.
- subgraph — a graph linked with another graph
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- sunlight — the light of the sun; sunshine.
- thoughts — the product of mental activity; that which one thinks: a body of thought.
- thuggish — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
- toughest — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- toughies — a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.