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13-letter words containing h, u, g

  • north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
  • novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
  • orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • p'u-t'ung hua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • phyllophagous — (of an organism) feeding on leaves.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pull the plug — If someone in a position of power pulls the plug on a project or on someone's activities, they use their power to stop them continuing.
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
  • right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
  • right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • rough as bags — uncouth
  • rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
  • round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
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