13-letter words containing h, u, s, a, r
- leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- marrow squash — any of several squashes having a smooth surface, an oblong shape, and a hard rind.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- music theatre — a modern musical-dramatic work that is performed on a smaller scale than, and without the conventions of, traditional opera
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- musquash root — spotted cowbane.
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
- on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
- orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- ostreophagous — oyster-eating
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parish church — local place of worship
- parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
- parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
- pedal pushers — women's short trousers
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- quarter horse — one of a breed of strong horses developed in the U.S. for short-distance races, usually a quarter of a mile.
- quarter-phase — differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
- return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.