14-letter words containing l, a, u, g, h
- laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- milligram hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
- milligram-hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- naphthyl group — Also called alpha-naphthyl group, alpha-naphthyl radical. the univalent group C 1 0 H 7 –, having a replaceable hydrogen atom in the first, or alpha, position; 1-naphthyl group.
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
- rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- 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
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
- slaughterously — murderously
- social housing — Social housing is housing which is provided for rent or sale at a fairly low cost by housing associations and local councils.
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
- straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
- the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
- the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
- the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
- thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-rightist — a person with extremely right-wing political views
- un-challenging — offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.