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12-letter words containing h, u, g, o

  • heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
  • heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
  • heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
  • heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
  • heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • higgs bugson — (humour)   A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
  • high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
  • high-wrought — highly agitated; overwrought.
  • hillsborough — a town in W California.
  • hippo regius — a seaport of ancient Numidia: St. Augustine was bishop here a.d. 395–430; the site of modern Annaba, in Algeria.
  • hippophagous — eating horse meat
  • hologonidium — soredium.
  • homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
  • homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
  • honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
  • horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
  • house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
  • house lights — lights of a residential building
  • house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
  • housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
  • hua guo feng — 1921–2008, Chinese Communist statesman; prime minister of China 1976–80
  • hugh loebner — (person)   Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
  • human genome — genetic code of human beings
  • hung up (on) — emotionally disturbed (by); neurotic, repressed, etc.
  • hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
  • hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
  • hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
  • hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
  • hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
  • in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
  • ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
  • interborough — between boroughs.
  • interwrought — having been interworked
  • johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
  • juan hidalgoJuan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
  • keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
  • live through — experience or endure
  • live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
  • look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
  • look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
  • loop through — loop
  • loughborough — a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
  • mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
  • meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
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