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13-letter words containing h, u, y

  • frelinghuysenFrederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
  • group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
  • hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
  • harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
  • haskell curry — (person)   Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
  • hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
  • heavily built — with a big heavy body
  • heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
  • heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
  • heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
  • heusler alloy — any of various alloys of manganese and other nonferromagnetic metals that exhibit ferromagnetism.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
  • hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
  • holy saturday — the Saturday in Holy Week.
  • holy thursday — Ascension Day.
  • holyroodhouse — a royal palace in Edinburgh in Scotland: official residence of the Queen when in Scotland; begun in 1501 by James IV of Scotland; scene of the murder of David Rizzio in 1566
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • homosexuality — sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex.
  • honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
  • honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
  • house of keys — the lower house of the legislature of the Isle of Man.
  • housey-housey — house (def 19).
  • how-do-you-do — a greeting; salutation: She smiled and gave him a how-do-you-do fit for a king.
  • hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
  • humpty dumpty — an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.
  • humpty-dumpty — an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
  • hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
  • hydraulically — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
  • hydronium ion — the hydrogen ion bonded to a molecule of water, H 3 O + , the form in which hydrogen ions are found in aqueous solution.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
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