13-letter words containing h, u, i
- organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- 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.
- 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.
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- phylloquinone — vitamin K1.
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- phytonutrient — phytochemical.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- 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.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- 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.
- pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- psammophilous — living or growing in sand
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
- 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.
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- 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.
- pussy-whipped — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
- put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
- quintillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 18 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 30 zeros.
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.