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11-letter words containing h, u, g

  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • outweighing — Present participle of outweigh.
  • overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • overwrought — extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
  • parachuting — descent using parachute
  • passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
  • physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
  • put through — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
  • quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
  • right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • right stuff — the necessary or ideal qualities or capabilities, as courage, confidence, dependability, toughness, or daring (usually preceded by the).
  • righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough edges — lack of refinement
  • rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
  • rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
  • rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
  • rough-house — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
  • roughing-in — the act or process of applying a base coat of plaster to a masonry surface.
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
  • rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
  • run through — an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
  • run-through — the performing of a sequence of designated actions, especially as a trial prior to actual performance; rehearsal; practice.
  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schuschniggKurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.
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