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13-letter words containing h, u, g

  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
  • couch surfing — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • couch-hopping — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • cough mixture — Cough mixture is the same as cough medicine.
  • counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
  • countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
  • curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
  • ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
  • euthanatizing — Present participle of euthanatize.
  • extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
  • extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
  • extinguishing — Present participle of extinguish.
  • father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
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