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14-letter words containing h, u, t, e, r, i

  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • housing market — property trade
  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
  • hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • in the picture — informed about a given situation
  • in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
  • metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
  • microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
  • milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • multithreading — (parallel)   Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
  • nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
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