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11-letter words containing h, u, n, g

  • main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
  • meshuggeneh — an insane or stupid person
  • meshuggener — Crazy, insane.
  • minus sight — a foresight used in leveling.
  • monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
  • mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
  • mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • naughtiness — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
  • neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
  • new thought — a system of doctrine and practice originating in the 19th century and stressing the power of thought to control physical and mental events.
  • night court — a criminal court that convenes at night for the quick disposition of charges and the granting of bail.
  • night nurse — a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night
  • ningxia hui — an administrative division in N China. 25,640 sq. mi. (66,400 sq. km). Capital: Yinchuan.
  • ningxia-hui — autonomous region in NW China, on the border of Inner Mongolia: 65,637 sq mi (169,999 sq km); pop. 4,660,000; cap. Yinchuan
  • nothing but — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
  • outfighting — a battle or combat.
  • outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
  • outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • outweighing — Present participle of outweigh.
  • overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • parachuting — descent using parachute
  • peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
  • plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
  • 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.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
  • qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
  • 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.
  • roughing-in — the act or process of applying a base coat of plaster to a masonry surface.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • shanhaiguan — a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Gulf of Liaodong: strategically located at the E end of the Great Wall.
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • showjumping — horseriding event
  • shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
  • single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
  • song thrush — a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.
  • south ogden — a town in N Utah.
  • southington — a town in central Connecticut.
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • strengthful — full of strength, strong
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
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