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14-letter words containing h, u, i

  • port authority — a government commission that manages bridges, tunnels, airports, and other such facilities of a port or city.
  • prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • pseudaesthesia — imaginary sensation, like that of an amputated limb
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • psychoacoustic — relating to psychoacoustics
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • public holiday — national day off work
  • public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
  • purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
  • push down list — (programming)   (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
  • put the lid on — to be the final blow to
  • quasi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quick thinking — problem-solving in an emergency
  • quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
  • radioautograph — autoradiograph.
  • radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
  • relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
  • rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
  • ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
  • running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
  • running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
  • russia leather — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
  • russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
  • sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
  • saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
  • schizophyceous — belonging to the Schizophyceae, a group of unicellular bluish-green algae, occurring in both salt and fresh water and often causing pollution of drinking water.
  • school council — a group of pupils who are elected by fellow pupils to represent their school and think of ideas for improving it
  • school uniform — standard outfit worn by pupils
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
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