10-letter words containing h, u, g, s
- lights-out — Chiefly Military. a signal, usually by drum or bugle, that all or certain camp or barracks lights are to be extinguished for the night.
- long house — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longhouses — Plural form of longhouse.
- lughnasadh — an ancient Celtic festival held on Aug 1. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- lungfishes — Plural form of lungfish.
- megathrust — (geology) A sudden slip along a fault between a subducting and an overriding plate; results in a major earthquake.
- meshugeneh — meshuga
- misthought — to think incorrectly or unfavorably.
- mummichogs — Plural form of mummichog.
- naughtiest — Superlative form of naughty; most naughty.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nightclubs — Plural form of nightclub.
- nonhousing — not concerned with or related to housing
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.
- oesophagus — (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
- omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- otherguess — of another kind; different.
- oughtlings — at all
- outgrowths — Plural form of outgrowth.
- outgushing — Present participle of outgush.
- outshining — Present participle of outshine.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plus sight — a backsight used in leveling.
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- purchasing — buying
- push along — to go away
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
- rush light — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- scheduling — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shoutingly — by way of shouting
- showground — outdoor events venue
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.