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16-letter words containing h, i, e, r, u, g

  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • right outer join — outer join
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • sheltering trust — a trust that provides a fund for a beneficiary, as a minor, with the title vested so that the fund or its income cannot be claimed by others, as creditors of the beneficiary.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • squatter's right — a claim to real property, especially public land, that may be granted to a person who has openly possessed and continuously occupied it without legal authority for a prescribed period of years.
  • sulu archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
  • through the mill — a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
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