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12-letter words containing g, u, t, h, r

  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • pass through — an act of passing.
  • pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
  • photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
  • play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
  • ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • pull through — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • push through — force to accept
  • put together — assemble
  • quarterlight — A small, pivoted, normally triangular, car window that acts as a vent.
  • quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • read-through — reading (def 1).
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • rights issue — Finance; offering of new shares to existing holders
  • romp through — If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • rush through — If you rush something through, you deal with it quickly so that it is ready in a shorter time than usual.
  • rust-through — an act or instance of rusting: The body of the car is protected against rust-through.
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slip through — be undetected
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
  • straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • the struggle — the radical and armed opposition to apartheid, esp by the military wings of the ANC and the PAC
  • therethrough — (of a place) through it; through them
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