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15-letter words containing h, i, e, r, u

  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
  • credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • crush-resistant — not being easily creased
  • curate's-eggish — good in parts
  • curia rhaetorum — a city in E Switzerland, capital of Graubünden canton. Pop: 32 989 (2000)
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • deutsches reich — former German name of Germany.
  • do your head in — If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated.
  • duchesse brisee — See under duchesse.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • field of honour — the place or scene of a battle or duel, esp of jousting tournaments in medieval times
  • figure of eight — figure eight.
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • fish restaurant — a restaurant which serves mainly fish
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • force the issue — to compel decision on some matter
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • french guianese — 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.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
  • get the picture — understand
  • giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
  • harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • heather mixture — cloth made from a mixture of different yarns, predominantly grey but with flecks of different colours
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
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