14-letter words containing h, u, i
- harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
- harlequinesque — in the manner of a harlequin.
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- have bought it — to be killed
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
- hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
- hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
- hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
- heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
- hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
- hippopotamuses — Plural form of hippopotamus.
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- holy communion — communion (def 1).
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
- honour killing — a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
- humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humidification — to make humid.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.