13-letter words containing h, u, e, r, t
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- homeothermous — remaining at an almost constant temperature
- horse's mouth — horse (def 36).
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house trailer — a trailer fitted with accommodations for sleeping, eating, washing, etc.
- 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.
- household art — any of the skills necessary to the efficient running of a household, as cooking or keeping a family budget.
- housemistress — A female teacher in charge of a dormitory at a boarding school.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- hunter's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
- hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- hunter-killer — of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypereutectic — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
- hypertrophous — relating to hypertrophy
- hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- 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
- lucifer match — friction match.
- 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.