14-letter words containing h, u, a, s
- inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- it's just that — You use the expression it's just that when you are making a complaint, suggestion, or excuse, so that the person you are talking to will not get annoyed with you.
- james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
- jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- just like that — suddenly
- just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- lease-purchase — the continuing use of property or goods under a lease for a stipulated period with option for the lessee to buy and with part of the rental charges credited toward the purchase price.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- malacophyllous — (of plants living in dry regions) having fleshy leaves in which water is stored
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- non-harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- non-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
- north caucasus — a region in the S Russian Federation in Europe, E of the Black Sea.
- north st. paul — a town in E Minnesota.