13-letter words containing h, i, g, r, o, u
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
- night journey — the journey in which Muhammad was carried from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended into heaven.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- 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.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- 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).
- think through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thoroughgoing — doing things thoroughly.
- thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
- toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
- underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- unneighboured — having no neighbour or neighbours
- unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
- unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
- upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.