14-letter words containing h, o, n, u
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- homeward bound — going home
- homme du monde — a man of the world; a sophisticate.
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
- honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- honour killing — a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- honours course — a degree course at honours level
- honours degree — a degree at honours level
- honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- horrendousness — the state or condition of being horrendous or dreadful
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- household name — a person or thing that is very well known
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humidification — to make humid.
- humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
- humoursomeness — the quality of being humoursome
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperconscious — acutely aware.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
- immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
- in hot pursuit — If you are in hot pursuit of someone, you are chasing after them with great determination.
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- in sb's honour — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
- inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
- jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- john q. public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
- johnny-jump-up — any of certain violets, especially Viola pedunculata, having variously colored flowers.
- khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement