13-letter words containing s, e, h, u
- euphausiacean — a member of the Euphausiacea order of small shrimplike crustaceans
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
- exanthematous — Of or pertaining to exanthem.
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- exhaustlessly — in an exhaustless manner
- extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
- extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
- extinguishing — Present participle of extinguish.
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
- 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.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
- furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- glucochlorose — chloralose.
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haematogenous — producing blood
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
- have its uses — If you say that being something or knowing someone has its uses, you mean that it makes it possible for you to do what you otherwise would not be able to do.