13-letter words containing h, i, r, a, n, u
- straighten up — stand straighter
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- tin parachute — an employment agreement guaranteeing a worker compensation, especially in the form of bonuses and benefits, in the event of dismissal as a result of a merger or takeover.
- transhumanism — a philosophy that explores human transcendence above or beyond organic, corporeal limitations through technological and philosophical evolution.
- tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
- turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
- uncharismatic — (of a person) not charismatic; lacking charisma; dull
- unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
- unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- untheoretical — not theoretical; not belonging or pertaining to the realm of theory; not confined to the theoretical realm; (somewhat) concrete
- unthreatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- unthriftyhead — thriftlessness
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- up in the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- vasa murrhina — an American art glass, consisting of colored glass dusted with flakes or grains of metal and flashed with clear glass.
- virtual human — a computer-generated moving image of a human being, used esp in films as an extra in large crowd scenes
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- zarathustrian — Zoroaster.
- zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.