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13-letter words containing h, e, u

  • curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
  • cushion cover — a fabric cover, often with a decorative design, designed to protect a cushion
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
  • 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
  • dehumidifiers — Plural form of dehumidifier.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro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
  • dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
  • dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • 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.
  • doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
  • down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • 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.
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • 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
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
  • eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
  • emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
  • entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
  • entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
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