13-letter words containing h, u, t, c, i
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
- hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.
- hunting watch — hunter (def 6).
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypereutectic — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- 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.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- multitheistic — Of or relating to multitheism.
- 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
- 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.
- niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
- nightclubbing — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- 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.