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13-letter words containing n, i, u

  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • 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.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
  • housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
  • hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
  • 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
  • humanitarians — Plural form of humanitarian.
  • humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • 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's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hunter-killer — of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
  • hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.
  • hunting knife — a large, sharp knife, usually with a handle shaped to fit a firm grip and a blade with a slight curve toward the tip, that is used to skin and cut up game, or sometimes to dispatch it.
  • 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 pinks — the traditional attire worn by people in Britain while fox hunting, the distinguishing feature of which is a scarlet jacket
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • hunting watch — hunter (def 6).
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • hyperimmunize — to render highly immunized
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
  • hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • 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.
  • illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
  • illusionistic — a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye. Compare trompe l'oeil.
  • illustrations — Plural form of illustration.
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