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14-letter words containing a, n, h, u, i

  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housing estate — housing development.
  • housing market — property trade
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
  • humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
  • immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
  • in league with — along with, plotting with
  • inauthenticity — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
  • inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • 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.
  • launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
  • leu enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
  • maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
  • michigan rummy — a variety of five hundred rummy in which each player scores his or her melds as played.
  • mountain chain — a series of ranges of mountains
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • 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
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