13-letter words containing h, a, u
- pedal pushers — women's short trousers
- 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
- pharaoh hound — one of a breed of medium-sized gazehounds with a smooth coat, red to tan in color with white markings, and erect ears.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- phyllophagous — (of an organism) feeding on leaves.
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- 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.
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
- polyadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three or more sets or bundles.
- 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.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
- pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- psammophilous — living or growing in sand
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- 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.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- 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.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- quanah parker — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
- quarter horse — one of a breed of strong horses developed in the U.S. for short-distance races, usually a quarter of a mile.
- quarter-phase — differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
- 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.
- regular graph — (mathematics) A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.