13-letter words containing h, u, g, a
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- regular graph — (mathematics) A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- souphanouvong — Prince, 1909–1995, Laotian political leader: president 1975–86 (half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma).
- 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).
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- sphagnum moss — Botany
- straighten up — stand straighter
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
- thaumaturgist — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- thorough bass — figured bass.
- thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- tsutsugamushi — any of various rickettsial disease, including scrub typhus
- tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
- turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
- turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
- ultrarightist — ultraright.
- unchallenging — not challenging or difficult; not providing a challenge; easy
- unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
- untheological — not theological; not of or pertaining to the nature of theology
- unthreatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).