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17-letter words containing t, h, u, g

  • agricultural show — a display of agricultural equipment and livestock, often including competitions, entertainment, and a trade fair
  • aminoglutethimide — a hormone antagonist, C 13 H 16 N 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of Cushing's syndrome and breast cancer.
  • bighorn mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains in N Wyo. and S Mont.: highest peak, 13,165 ft (4,013 m)
  • blue-sky thinking — Blue-sky thinking is the activity of trying to find completely new ideas.
  • bottlebrush grass — a North American grass, Hystrix patula, having loose flower spikes with long awns.
  • bring up the rear — to be at the back in a procession, race, etc
  • bursting strength — the capacity of a thing or substance to resist change when under pressure.
  • bushman's singlet — a sleeveless heavy black woollen singlet, used as working clothing by timber fellers
  • buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
  • casting the runes — (jargon)   What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program because it never works for anyone else; especially used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does. Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also see the AI koan about Tom Knight.
  • chacun a son gout — each to his own taste
  • change one's tune — to alter one's attitude or tone of speech
  • chincoteague pony — a wild pony found on certain islands off the Virginia coast, apparently descended from Moorish ponies shipwrecked in this vicinity in the 16th century.
  • christmas pudding — Christmas pudding is a special pudding that is eaten at Christmas.
  • chugach mountains — a coastal mountain range in S Alaska, extending W from the St. Elias Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Marcus Baker, 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • circuit switching — (communications)   Communication via a single dedicated path between the sender and receiver. The telephone system is an example of a circuit switched network. The term connection-oriented is used in packet-based networks in contrast to connectionless communication or packet switching.
  • collegiate church — a church that has an endowed chapter of canons and prebendaries attached to it but that is not a cathedral
  • colour photograph — a photograph that is developed and printed in colour
  • computer graphics — the use of a computer to produce and manipulate pictorial images on a video screen, as in animation techniques or the production of audiovisual aids
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • contour ploughing — ploughing following the contours of the land, to minimize the effects of erosion
  • contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
  • daughter language — a language that has evolved from another specified language.
  • debt rescheduling — the process of changing the time frame or deadline for the repayment of debt, usually to ease the burden on the debtor
  • diaphragm shutter — a camera shutter having a group of overlapping blades that open and close at the center when exposing film.
  • do your own thing — If you do your own thing, you live, act, or behave in the way you want to, without paying attention to convention or depending on other people.
  • douglas macarthurDouglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • down the plughole — If you say that something has gone down the plughole, you mean that it has failed or has been lost or wasted.
  • equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
  • ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
  • figure-eight knot — a kind of knot
  • fire extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
  • fire-extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
  • flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
  • flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
  • flight supplement — an additional charge payable on the price of an air ticket
  • fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • go out of fashion — be dated
  • go out of the way — to inconvenience oneself; do something that one would not ordinarily do, or that requires extra or deliberate effort or trouble
  • go to the country — If a head of government or a government goes to the country, they hold a general election.
  • go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
  • grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.

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