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

  • the urban league — a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • there you are/go — You say 'there you are' or 'there you go' when you are offering something to someone.
  • there's no hurry — If you say to someone 'There's no hurry' or 'I'm in no hurry' you are telling them that there is no need for them to do something immediately.
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
  • three musketeers — French Les Trois Mousquetaires. a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
  • three-piece suit — men's formal outfit
  • three-point turn — When the driver of a vehicle does a three-point turn, he or she turns the vehicle by driving forwards in a curve, then backwards in a curve, and then forwards in a curve.
  • through the mill — a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
  • through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
  • true-heartedness — the quality of being true-hearted
  • tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
  • turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
  • turn up the heat — to increase the intensity of activity, coercion, etc
  • twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
  • un-reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • under sb's thumb — If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.
  • under the hammer — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
  • under the plough — If an area of land is under the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or put under the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
  • undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • union membership — members of a trade union
  • unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • up with the lark — up early in the morning
  • upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
  • upper lough erne — a lough in Northern Ireland, fed by the river Erne
  • ureterolithotomy — incision of a ureter for removal of a calculus.
  • vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
  • water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
  • well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
  • wheel of fortune — wheel (def 9).
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
  • whited sepulchre — hypocrite
  • with due respect — with deserved esteem
  • without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner
  • without recourse — a qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders
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