13-letter words containing h, u, g, a
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.
- hunting watch — hunter (def 6).
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- john of gaunt — John of, John of Gaunt.
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- kangchenjunga — a mountain on the border between Nepal and Sikkim, in the Himalayas: the third highest mountain in the world. Height: 8598 m (28 208 ft)
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
- laughing gull — a North American gull, Larus atricilla, having a high, laughlike call.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- li hung-chang — 1823–1901, Chinese statesman.
- light quantum — photon.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
- mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
- natural right — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
- novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
- octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
- orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
- orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
- organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
- orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- ostreophagous — oyster-eating
- p'u-t'ung hua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- phyllophagous — (of an organism) feeding on leaves.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited