14-letter words containing h, u, n, g, r
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
- rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
- running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
- running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- shopping hours — the times during which shops are open
- single honours — a British university degree course that involves study in a single area
- smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- straighten out — make straighter
- sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
- the open group — (body) (Formerly "X/Open") A vendor- and technology-neutral consortium of buyers and suppliers of information systems that aims to ease integration by testing and certifying products against open standards.
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
- tragacanth gum — Tragacanth gum is a gum obtained from the tragacanth plant, used as a suspending agent.
- turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
- unstrengthened — not strengthened or reinforced; not given additional strength
- 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.
- ward cunnigham — (person) The creator of the first wiki.
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- win through to — If you win through to a particular position or stage of a competition, you achieve it after a great effort or by defeating opponents.
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.