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

  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
  • housing estate — housing development.
  • housing market — property trade
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • 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.
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • 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
  • marathon group — an encounter group that meets for an extended period of time, as eight hours to a week, in the belief that the resultant intensity and intimacy will lead to a more open expression of feelings.
  • mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
  • 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.
  • neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
  • off the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
  • plough through — If you plough through something such as a large meal or a long piece of work, you finally finish it although it takes a lot of effort.
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • 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.
  • radioautograph — autoradiograph.
  • rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
  • 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.
  • rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
  • schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • 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
  • smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
  • smooth-tongued — fluent or convincing in speech; glib.
  • something's up — something is amiss
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