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13-letter words containing h, e, u, r, i, s

  • mistle thrush — a large, European thrush, Turdus viscivorus, that feeds on the berries of the mistletoe.
  • monmouthshire — a historic county in E Wales, now part of Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, and South Glamorgan.
  • music theatre — a modern musical-dramatic work that is performed on a smaller scale than, and without the conventions of, traditional opera
  • musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
  • mussel shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
  • neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • 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.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
  • rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
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