9-letter words containing g, u, s, h
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hiccoughs — Plural form of hiccough.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- hugeously — hugely
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hui-tsung — 1082–1135, emperor of China 1101–26: painter and patron of art.
- humongous — extraordinarily large.
- humungous — humongous.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hypogeous — underground; subterranean.
- inrushing — Moving towards or into.
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- meshugaas — foolishness; insanity; senselessness.
- meshugana — a crazy person.
- mistaught — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- mouthings — Plural form of mouthing.
- noughties — The decade from 2000 to 2009.
- onrushing — Rushing or flowing forward.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- oughtness — the state of being right
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- punishing — causing or characterized by harsh or injurious treatment; severe; brutal: The storm was accompanied by punishing winds.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- roguishly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughshod — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
- rushingly — to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- rushlight — a narrow candle, formerly in use, made of the pith of various types of rush dipped in tallow
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg