13-letter words containing r, i, a, u, c, h
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hippuric acid — a crystalline solid excreted in the urine of mammals. Formula: C9H9NO3
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- horticultural — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.
- hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
- hydraulically — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- 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
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- lucifer match — friction match.
- mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- music theatre — a modern musical-dramatic work that is performed on a smaller scale than, and without the conventions of, traditional opera
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- parish church — local place of worship
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.