12-letter words containing h, u, g, s
- 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.
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- laguna hills — a city in SW California.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
- mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- naughty bits — genitals
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nigiri-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- ophiophagous — eating snakes.
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pantophagous — characterized by pantophagy
- paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
- pass through — an act of passing.
- pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
- phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- phytophagous — herbivorous.
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- pompholygous — characterized by pompholyx
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
- push through — force to accept