13-letter words containing h, u, i, c
- 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.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- parish church — local place of worship
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- 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.
- poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
- schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- successorship — the position or state of a successor
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.