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14-letter words containing t, a, u, g, h

  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
  • shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
  • slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • 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.
  • squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
  • staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • tangata whenua — the indigenous Māori people of a particular area of New Zealand or of the country as a whole
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
  • 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 game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • 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
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thomas youngerThomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • 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
  • ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
  • ultra-rightist — a person with extremely right-wing political views
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • 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.
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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