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13-letter words containing h, u, r, l

  • lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
  • macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
  • mahabalipuram — a village in NE Tamil Nadu, in SE India: Hindu temples; early Dravidian architecture.
  • martin luther — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
  • melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
  • methylmercury — any of several extremely toxic organometallic compounds, Hg(CH 3) 2 , formed from metallic mercury by the action of microorganisms and capable of entering the food chain: used as seed disinfectants.
  • microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
  • microphyllous — having microphylls
  • middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
  • missel thrush — mistle thrush.
  • mistle thrush — a large, European thrush, Turdus viscivorus, that feeds on the berries of the mistletoe.
  • mother liquor — the portion of a solution remaining after crystallization of its important component.
  • much-traveled — A much-traveled person has traveled a lot in foreign countries.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • multithreaded — multithreading
  • mussel shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
  • natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
  • natural death — death that occurs from natural causes, as disease or old age, rather than from violence or an accident.
  • natural right — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
  • neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
  • neuroethology — the study of the role of the nervous system in animal behaviour
  • neurohormonal — pertaining to or controlled by a neurohormone.
  • neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • pedal pushers — women's short trousers
  • 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.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • 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.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
  • pressure hull — the inner, pressure-resistant hull of a submarine.
  • 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.
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
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