13-letter words containing l, u, s, h, e
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- council house — In Britain, a council house is a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
- ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- exhaustlessly — in an exhaustless manner
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
- furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- glucochlorose — chloralose.
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- 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.
- healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
- hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heterosexuals — Plural form of heterosexual.
- 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
- hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- 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.