13-letter words containing h, o, u, r
- immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inner harbour — a part of a harbour which is further inland
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- lubber's hole — (in a top on a mast) an open space through which a sailor may pass instead of climbing out on the futtock shrouds.
- lump together — If a number of different people or things are lumped together, they are considered as a group rather than separately.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- marrow squash — any of several squashes having a smooth surface, an oblong shape, and a hard rind.
- megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mercurochrome — Merbromin.
- merrythoughts — Plural form of merrythought.
- methoxy group — the univalent group CH 3 O−.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
- monmouthshire — a historic county in E Wales, now part of Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, and South Glamorgan.
- mother church — a church from which other churches have had their origin or derived their authority.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- mother liquor — the portion of a solution remaining after crystallization of its important component.
- mother nature — a personification of the forces of nature as a controlling and regulating maternal being, sometimes creative and caring.
- mother tongue — the language first learned by a person; native language.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
- mouthbreather — a person who breathes through the mouth instead of through the nose
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- mushroom town — a town that has grown very quickly
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- musquash root — spotted cowbane.
- neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.