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16-letter words containing h, u, n, t, i

  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • entrepreneurship — The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
  • equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
  • fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • furniture polish — product: shines wood
  • girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
  • gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
  • hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
  • hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • haussmannization — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
  • hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
  • hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
  • heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • hit-and-run raid — a raid relying on surprise allied to a rapid departure from the scene of operations for the desired effect
  • holier-than-thou — obnoxiously pious; sanctimonious; self-righteous.
  • home-equity loan — a loan that uses equity in the borrower's home as collateral.
  • horizontal union — a labor union organized by skills or trades of its members rather than by industries.
  • houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
  • household knight — bachelor (def 5).
  • household-knight — an unmarried man.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
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