13-letter words containing a, h, u, t
- national hunt — the racing of horses on racecourses with jumps
- natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
- natural death — death that occurs from natural causes, as disease or old age, rather than from violence or an accident.
- natural right — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- nonauthorized — Not authorized.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
- not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
- nut chocolate — chocolate containing nuts
- octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
- on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
- orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- ostreophagous — oyster-eating
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- p'u-t'ung hua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
- parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
- pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- peanut heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
- pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- play catch up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- play catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- polythalamous — having multiple chambers
- port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quarter horse — one of a breed of strong horses developed in the U.S. for short-distance races, usually a quarter of a mile.