13-letter words containing h, s, u, a, n
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
- countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- 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.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- euphausiacean — a member of the Euphausiacea order of small shrimplike crustaceans
- euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
- exanthematous — Of or pertaining to exanthem.
- extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
- fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- haematogenous — producing blood
- halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- 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.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
- hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
- he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
- healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
- helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
- hiatus hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
- hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
- house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.