13-letter words containing g, u, t, h
- extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
- extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
- extinguishing — Present participle of extinguish.
- father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
- gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
- garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- generic thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
- give mouth to — to express in speech; say
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
- group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
- gulf of kutch — an inlet of the Arabian Sea in India. Length: about 159 kilometres (99 miles)
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
- guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
- haematogenous — producing blood
- hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
- hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
- have the guts — be brave enough
- heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
- heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
- hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
- hematophagous — feeding on blood, as the vampire bat.
- hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
- heterogeneous — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
- honour bright — an exclamation pledging honour
- house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.