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13-letter words containing h, a, u

  • exhaustlessly — in an exhaustless manner
  • extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
  • false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
  • fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
  • 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.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • fort huachuca — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Arizona, SE of Tucson.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • 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.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • funeral march — march played for funeral processions
  • 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.
  • gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
  • gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
  • garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
  • grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
  • grass sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as Sudan grass, grown for pasturage and hay.
  • groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
  • group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
  • 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.
  • h and d curve — characteristic curve.
  • habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
  • hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • haematogenous — producing blood
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • hail columbia — hell (used as a euphemism): He caught Hail Columbia for coming home late.
  • 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 coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half measures — inadequate measures or actions
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
  • hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
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