13-letter words containing h, o, t, u, n
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- 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.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- 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?
- 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.
- flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- foot-in-mouth — (of a statement) inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent.
- 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.
- 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.
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- haematogenous — producing blood
- haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
- 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.
- 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.
- hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
- heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
- heat equation — a partial differential equation the solution of which gives the distribution of temperature in a region as a function of space and time when the temperature at the boundaries, the initial distribution of temperature, and the physical properties of the medium are specified.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- heterogeneous — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- hexamethonium — a compound, C 10 H 24 N 2 , used in the treatment of severe hypertension to lower blood pressure and increase blood flow by blocking transmission of nerve impulses that constrict blood vessels.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- homeoteleuton — a series of words with the same or similar endings.
- honour bright — an exclamation pledging honour
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- hound's tooth — a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.