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

  • counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
  • countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
  • counterthesis — A thesis that rebuts another.
  • counterthreat — an opposing or retaliatory threat
  • counterthrust — an opposing or retaliatory thrust, esp in warfare or combat sports
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • country house — A country house is a large, often attractive, house in the country, usually one that is or was owned by a rich or noble family.
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
  • cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
  • culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
  • culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
  • eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
  • extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
  • father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • flutter wheel — a waterwheel at the bottom of a chute, turned by the falling water.
  • fort huachuca — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Arizona, SE of Tucson.
  • fort monmouth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E central New Jersey, SE of Red Bank; site of signal school.
  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
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