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

  • overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rauschenbuschWalter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
  • rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • south-eastern — South-eastern means in or from the south-east of a region or country.
  • south-western — South-western means in or from the south-west of a region or country.
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • 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.
  • sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • super-heroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
  • superstrength — great strength
  • three unities — the state of being one; oneness.
  • through stone — perpend1 .
  • thunder sheet — a large sheet of metal that can be shaken to produce a noise resembling thunder as a sound effect for a theatrical production
  • thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
  • thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
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