12-letter words containing h, u, g, o
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- romp through — If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily.
- rough collie — a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- roughhousing — the act of behaving in a boisterous or rough way
- running shoe — trainer, sneaker
- rush through — If you rush something through, you deal with it quickly so that it is ready in a shorter time than usual.
- rust-through — an act or instance of rusting: The body of the car is protected against rust-through.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- saprophagous — (of an organism) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slip through — be undetected
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
- straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
- thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.
- the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
- therethrough — (of a place) through it; through them
- thirdborough — an under constable of a township
- thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
- thoroughwort — boneset.