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11-letter words containing h, u, g, e, r

  • hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
  • headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
  • heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
  • heptangular — having seven angles.
  • hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
  • hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
  • hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
  • hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
  • high jumper — a participant in the high jump.
  • high summer — High summer is the middle of summer.
  • hip huggers — trousers that begin at the hips instead of the waist
  • hip-huggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
  • home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
  • hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
  • horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
  • horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
  • horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
  • hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
  • house group — a group of Christians who regularly meet to worship, study the Bible, etc, in someone's house
  • house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
  • hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
  • hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
  • hydrogenous — of or containing hydrogen.
  • jugged hare — a stew made of wild rabbit, usually cooked in an earthenware jug or stone pot.
  • khmer rouge — a Cambodian guerrilla and rebel force and political opposition movement, originally Communist and Communist-backed.
  • let through — to allow to pass (through)
  • light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
  • megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
  • meshuggener — Crazy, insane.
  • murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
  • night nurse — a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • overwrought — extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
  • righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
  • rough edges — lack of refinement
  • rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
  • rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
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