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13-letter words containing l, u, n

  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
  • halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
  • hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
  • hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
  • hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
  • hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
  • harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
  • helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
  • hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
  • hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
  • hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
  • homeoteleuton — a series of words with the same or similar endings.
  • homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • homologoumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
  • honour school — (at Oxford University) one of the courses of study leading to an honours degree
  • 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.
  • house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
  • house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • houselessness — Lack of a house; homelessness.
  • 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.
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
  • 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.
  • hummle bonnet — a cap formerly worn by Scottish soldiers
  • humorlessness — The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
  • hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
  • hunter-killer — of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • 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.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
  • i'll be bound — I am sure (something) is true
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
  • ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • illocutionary — pertaining to a linguistic act performed by a speaker in producing an utterance, as suggesting, warning, promising, or requesting.
  • illuminations — Plural form of illumination.
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