13-letter words containing h, a, r, i, u
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- church slavic — a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hiatus hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
- hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.