14-letter words containing h, o, n, u
- unicorn chaser — originally a picture of a unicorn posted on a blog site shortly after an offensive or disturbing picture has been posted, as a kind of antidote to the previous post. Now used of a comforting or innocent image, video clip, or topic viewed or contemplated following a previous, disturbing image, video, etc.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- unthoughtfully — not thoughtfully; in an unthoughtful manner; thoughtlessly
- untouchability — the quality or condition of being an untouchable, ascribed in the Vedic tradition to persons of low caste or to persons excluded from the caste system.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
- well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- whole language — a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context. Compare phonics (def 1).
- whooping cough — an infectious disease of the respiratory mucous membrane, caused by Bordetella pertussis, characterized by a series of short, convulsive coughs followed by a deep inspiration accompanied by a whooping sound.
- win through to — If you win through to a particular position or stage of a competition, you achieve it after a great effort or by defeating opponents.
- winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
- without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
- word of honour — a promise; oath
- worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
- xanthomelanous — of or relating to olive-skinned and dark-haired peoples, belonging to the Xanthomelanoi division
- youth movement — a political, religious or social movement that is made up of young people
- youth offender — a young delinquent, especially a first offender, usually from 14 to 21 years old, whom the court tries to correct and guide rather than to punish as a criminal.