13-letter words containing r, h, e, u
- turn the tide — the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
- unapprehended — to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority: The police apprehended the burglars.
- unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
- under hatches — below decks
- under the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- under the lee — towards the lee
- under the sod — dead and buried
- under the sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
- underfinished — (of a farm animal) not having developed enough flesh
- undershepherd — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- understrength — having insufficient organizational strength; lacking in personnel: an understrength army.
- underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- undishonoured — not dishonoured; not disgraced or disrespected
- unhurtfulness — the state of being unhurtful
- unneighboured — having no neighbour or neighbours
- unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
- unreplenished — not replenished or refilled
- unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
- unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unsepulchered — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- unsmotherable — unquenchable
- unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- untheoretical — not theoretical; not belonging or pertaining to the realm of theory; not confined to the theoretical realm; (somewhat) concrete
- unthreatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- unthriftiness — the quality or condition of being unthrifty
- unthriftyhead — thriftlessness
- unupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- up in the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- upper chamber — upper house.
- upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
- uttar pradesh — a state in N India: a former province of British India. 93,933 sq. mi. (243,286 sq. km). Capital: Lucknow.
- vannevar bush — (person) Dr. Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974. The man who invented hypertext, which he called memex, in the 1930s. Bush did his undergraduate work at Tufts College, where he later taught. His masters thesis (1913) included the invention of the Profile Tracer, used in surveying work to measure distances over uneven ground. In 1919, he joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering, where he stayed for twenty-five years. In 1932, he was appointed vice-president and dean. At this time, Bush worked on optical and photocomposition devices, as well as a machine for rapid selection from banks of microfilm. Further positions followed: president of the Carnegie Institute in Washington, DC (1939); chair of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1939); director of Office of Scientific Research and Development. This last role was as presidential science advisor, which made him personally responsible for the 6,000 scientists involved in the war effort. During World War II, Bush worked on radar antenna profiles and the calculation of artillery firing tables. He proposed the development of an analogue computer, which later became the Rockefeller Differential Analyser. Bush is the pivotal figure in hypertext research. His ground-breaking 1945 paper, "As We May Think," speculated on how a machine might be created to assist human reasoning, and introduced the idea of an easily accessible, individually configurable storehouse of knowledge. This machine, which he dubbed "memex," in various ways anticipated hypermedia and the World Wide Web by nearly half a century.
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
- verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
- waterthrushes — Plural form of waterthrush.
- weather gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- weather house — a model house with two human figures, one that comes out to foretell bad weather and the other to foretell good weather