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

  • machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
  • main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
  • megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
  • meliphagous — feeding on honey
  • meshuggeneh — an insane or stupid person
  • meshuggener — Crazy, insane.
  • 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.
  • naughtiness — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
  • neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
  • new thought — a system of doctrine and practice originating in the 19th century and stressing the power of thought to control physical and mental events.
  • night nurse — a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • outweighing — Present participle of outweigh.
  • overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • overwrought — extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard 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.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
  • righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
  • rough edges — lack of refinement
  • rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
  • rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
  • rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
  • rough-house — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
  • see through — Also, see-thru [see-throo] /ˈsiˌθru/ (Show IPA). transparent: a see-through blouse.
  • see-through — Also, see-thru [see-throo] /ˈsiˌθru/ (Show IPA). transparent: a see-through blouse.
  • 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.
  • shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
  • single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
  • slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
  • sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
  • slough over — to gloss over; minimize
  • south ogden — a town in N Utah.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • strengthful — full of strength, strong
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • supercharge — to charge with an abundant or excessive amount, as of energy, emotion, or tension.
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