13-letter words containing h, u, m, p
- methoxy group — the univalent group CH 3 O−.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- moustache cup — mustache cup.
- multihospital — comprising or relating to several hospitals
- multiple shop — chain store.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mussel shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
- mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
- not much chop — not much good; poor
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- 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.
- openmouthedly — in a manner filled with amazement and wonder
- over the hump — a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- 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
- polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
- polythalamous — having multiple chambers
- psammophilous — living or growing in sand
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- rhizomorphous — rootlike in form.
- rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
- spathiphyllum — any of various tropical plants of the genus Spathiphyllum, having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental.
- sphagnum moss — Botany
- sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
- suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
- tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
- temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
- the high jump — an athletic event in which a competitor has to jump over a high bar set between two vertical supports
- the upper arm — the part of the arm between the shoulder and the elbow
- underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
- unimpeachable — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
- unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
- unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- upper chamber — upper house.
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- with impunity — unpunished