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13-letter words containing h, u, g, i

  • highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
  • hong xiu quan — 1814–64, Chinese religious leader and revolutionary. Claiming (1851) to be Christ's brother, he led the Taiping rebellion; committed suicide when it was defeated
  • honour bright — an exclamation pledging honour
  • house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
  • house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
  • housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
  • humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.
  • hunting knife — a large, sharp knife, usually with a handle shaped to fit a firm grip and a blade with a slight curve toward the tip, that is used to skin and cut up game, or sometimes to dispatch it.
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
  • hunting pinks — the traditional attire worn by people in Britain while fox hunting, the distinguishing feature of which is a scarlet jacket
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • hunting watch — hunter (def 6).
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • inhomogeneous — lack of homogeneity.
  • issuing house — a financial institution that engages in finding capital for established companies or for private firms wishing to convert to public companies, by issuing shares on their behalf
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
  • kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • languishingly — In a languishing manner.
  • 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.
  • 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 cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • light quantum — photon.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • lightning bug — firefly.
  • lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
  • logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • 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
  • meeting house — a house or building for religious worship.
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