13-letter words containing h, i, r, u
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parish church — local place of worship
- 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.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- phytonutrient — phytochemical.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- 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.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- 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.
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- 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.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- 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
- return flight — a flight going back
- rhizomorphous — rootlike in form.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- 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.
- running light — any of various lights required to be displayed by a vessel or aircraft operating between sunset and sunrise.