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13-letter words containing h, e, g, u

  • runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superstrength — great strength
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • surgery hours — the period of time each day when a doctor's surgery or office is open
  • sweet sorghum — sorgo.
  • that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
  • the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
  • the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
  • the high jump — an athletic event in which a competitor has to jump over a high bar set between two vertical supports
  • the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
  • the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • through stone — perpend1 .
  • through-other — confused.
  • tight-mouthed — tight-lipped.
  • to the ground — completely; absolutely
  • tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
  • turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
  • unchallenging — not challenging or difficult; not providing a challenge; easy
  • under the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • understrength — having insufficient organizational strength; lacking in personnel: an understrength army.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • unenlightened — to give intellectual or spiritual light to; instruct; impart knowledge to: We hope the results of our research will enlighten our colleagues.
  • unhomogenized — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
  • unneighboured — having no neighbour or neighbours
  • unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • unsightliness — distasteful or unpleasant to look at: an unsightly wound; unsightly disorder.
  • untheological — not theological; not of or pertaining to the nature of theology
  • unthreatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • weather gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
  • white pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
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