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13-letter words containing r, h, e, u

  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hunter's robe — pothos.
  • hunter-killer — of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
  • 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.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
  • hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
  • hypereutectic — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
  • 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.
  • hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
  • hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
  • hypertrophous — relating to hypertrophy
  • 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).
  • hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
  • hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • hyracotherium — eohippus.
  • hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • inner harbour — a part of a harbour which is further inland
  • kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
  • lake-urumiyehLake. Urmia, Lake.
  • laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
  • laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
  • laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
  • lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • lubber's hole — (in a top on a mast) an open space through which a sailor may pass instead of climbing out on the futtock shrouds.
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