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13-letter words containing h, u, e, s, a

  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • pedal pushers — women's short trousers
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • polyadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three or more sets or bundles.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
  • quarter horse — one of a breed of strong horses developed in the U.S. for short-distance races, usually a quarter of a mile.
  • quarter-phase — differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • sexual health — health care and counselling related to sexual relations, reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, etc
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
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