13-letter words containing a, s, h, u, r, n
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- humanitarians — Plural form of humanitarian.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
- on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
- orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- 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.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- shulhan arukh — an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom compiled by the Talmudic scholar Joseph Caro (1488–1575), the original edition published in Vienna in 1565 emphasizing the practices of Sephardic Jews.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- south-eastern — South-eastern means in or from the south-east of a region or country.
- southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.