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

  • half-understood — partially understood
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
  • hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
  • hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
  • heather mixture — cloth made from a mixture of different yarns, predominantly grey but with flecks of different colours
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterochthonous — not indigenous; foreign (opposed to autochthonous): heterochthonous flora and fauna.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • heterofullerene — (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
  • heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
  • heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
  • high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
  • hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
  • horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
  • horticulturally — With respect to horticulture.
  • horticulturists — Plural form of horticulturist.
  • hour after hour — continuously for many hours
  • housemistresses — Plural form of housemistress.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • humanitarianism — humanitarian principles or practices.
  • humanitarianist — humanitarian principles or practices.
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunter-gatherer — a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
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