15-letter words containing n, u, t, e
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hunt the wumpus — (games, history) (Or "Wumpus") /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by Gregory Yob in about 1973. Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at People's Computing Company (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter. ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1972-3. Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 USENET article <[email protected]>, posted the BASIC source code of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games", by Digital Equipment Corporation. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and M"obius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five "crooked arrows"; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added "anaerobic termites" that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). There have been many ports including one distributed with SunOS, a freeware one for the Macintosh and a C emulation by ESR.
- hunter-gatherer — a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
- ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
- illustriousness — The state of being illustrious.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunocompetent — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
- immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- in (the) future — You use in future when saying what will happen from now on, which will be different from what has previously happened. The form in the future is sometimes used instead, especially in American English.
- in all but name — If you say that a situation exists in all but name, you mean that it is not officially recognized even though it exists.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
- in rerum natura — in the nature of things
- in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
- in-suite dining — In-suite dining in a hotel is when guests eat meals in their rooms.
- in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
- inauthentically — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
- inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- individualities — Plural form of individuality.
- indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
- industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- innate immunity — natural bodily resistance to disease
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inopportuneness — The quality of being inopportune.