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13-letter words containing h, a, u

  • cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
  • curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
  • cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
  • custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
  • cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • 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
  • debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
  • decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • dhu el-hijjah — Islam. the twelfth month of the Muslim calendar, in leap year containing one extra day.
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • 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.
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
  • dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
  • emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
  • entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
  • euphausiacean — a member of the Euphausiacea order of small shrimplike crustaceans
  • euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
  • euthanatizing — Present participle of euthanatize.
  • euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
  • euthanization — The act or process of euthanizing.
  • exanthematous — Of or pertaining to exanthem.
  • exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
  • exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
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