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11-letter words containing h, a, g, u

  • monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
  • mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
  • mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
  • murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
  • naughtiness — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
  • ningxia hui — an administrative division in N China. 25,640 sq. mi. (66,400 sq. km). Capital: Yinchuan.
  • ningxia-hui — autonomous region in NW China, on the border of Inner Mongolia: 65,637 sq mi (169,999 sq km); pop. 4,660,000; cap. Yinchuan
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
  • out-a-sight — out-of-sight.
  • outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • parachuting — descent using parachute
  • passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
  • quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
  • right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
  • rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
  • shanhaiguan — a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Gulf of Liaodong: strategically located at the E end of the Great Wall.
  • slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
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