14-letter words containing h, u, g, a
- cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
- drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- guangxi zhuang — an administrative division in S China. 85,096 sq. mi. (220,399 sq. km). Capital: Nanning.
- guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
- gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
- haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- have bought it — to be killed