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13-letter words containing h, o, n, u

  • disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
  • dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
  • 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.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
  • 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
  • eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
  • entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
  • entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
  • ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
  • euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
  • euthanization — The act or process of euthanizing.
  • exanthematous — Of or pertaining to exanthem.
  • fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • 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.
  • foot-in-mouth — (of a statement) inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • fort monmouth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E central New Jersey, SE of Red Bank; site of signal school.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
  • gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • haematogenous — producing blood
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
  • hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • hand-to-mouth — offering or providing the barest livelihood, sustenance, or support; meager; precarious: a hand-to-mouth existence.
  • harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
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