16-letter words containing h, e, g, u
- allegheny spurge — a low, shrubby evergreen plant, Pachysandra procumbens, having spikes of white or purplish flowers, native to the southeastern U.S. and widely cultivated as a ground cover.
- authority figure — a person whose real or apparent authority over others inspires or demands obedience and emulation: Parents, teachers, and police officers are traditional authority figures for children.
- autoethnographic — Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
- background check — an investigation into a person's origins and previous history
- bastard daughter — an illegitimate daughter
- beg the question — If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
- big picture, the — a long-range or overall view or account of some complex matter
- bureau de change — a place where foreign currencies can be exchanged
- business english — English in business usage, especially the styles and forms of business correspondence.
- buying behaviour — the behaviours displayed by consumers when they purchase things, such as preferences, price points, etc
- champagne bucket — A champagne bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of champagne in and keep the champagne cool.
- charles coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
- checking account — A checking account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
- chequing account — (in Canada) account against which cheques can be drawn
- church suffering — the souls in purgatory.
- columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- continuous hinge — a long narrow hinge that runs the full length of the two surfaces to which its leaves are joined.
- counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
- counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
- dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
- dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
- enough is enough — expressing exasperation
- equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
- ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
- exchange student — sb who studies abroad
- father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
- feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
- feel the draught — to be short of money
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
- gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
- geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
- get the hell out — If you tell someone to get the hell out of a place, you are telling them angrily or emphatically to leave that place immediately.
- get the lead out — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
- glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
- gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
- go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
- government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
- graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
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