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14-letter words containing h, u, g, s

  • square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
  • squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
  • staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • strike through — cross out
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • thomas youngerThomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thought shower — brainstorm
  • thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
  • through street — a street along which the traffic has the right of way over vehicles entering or crossing at intersections.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
  • to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
  • ultra-rightist — a person with extremely right-wing political views
  • unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • unstrengthened — not strengthened or reinforced; not given additional strength
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
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