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

  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heterogeneous — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • hiatus hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
  • hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
  • honors course — a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
  • house surgeon — a surgeon who lives in a hospital in which he or she is on call.
  • house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • humorlessness — The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
  • hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
  • hunter's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hunter's robe — pothos.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
  • monmouthshire — a historic county in E Wales, now part of Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, and South Glamorgan.
  • neurohormones — Plural form of neurohormone.
  • neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
  • nursery rhyme — a short, simple poem or song for very young children, as Hickory Dickory Dock.
  • on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • osborne house — a house near Cowes on the Isle of Wight: the favourite residence of Queen Victoria, who died there; now a convalescent home
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
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