13-letter words containing h, i, r, s, u
- 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
- dehumidifiers — Plural form of dehumidifier.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- 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]>.
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
- 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.
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- 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.
- guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
- halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- hermit thrush — a North American thrush, Hylocichla guttata, noted for its complex and appealing song.
- herpesviruses — Plural form of herpesvirus.
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hiatus hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
- high pressure — intense or stressful situation
- high-pressure — having or involving a pressure above the normal: high-pressure steam.
- highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
- hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- hortus siccus — a collection of dried plants; herbarium.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.