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

  • contour sheet — a bed sheet designed to fit snugly over a mattress or the like, often having elastic material to hold down the corners.
  • council house — In Britain, a council house is a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.
  • counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
  • counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
  • counterchecks — Plural form of countercheck.
  • countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
  • counterthesis — A thesis that rebuts another.
  • counterthrust — an opposing or retaliatory thrust, esp in warfare or combat sports
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
  • 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.
  • 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
  • cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • cuckoo shrike — any Old World tropical songbird of the family Campephagidae, typically having a strong notched bill, long rounded tail, and pointed wings
  • cuckoo-shrike — any of numerous Old World passerine birds of the family Campephagidae, certain species of which superficially resemble cuckoos and have hooked bills like shrikes.
  • 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.
  • cushion cover — a fabric cover, often with a decorative design, designed to protect a cushion
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • 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
  • debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
  • dehumidifiers — Plural form of dehumidifier.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
  • 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.
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
  • emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
  • entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
  • entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
  • ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
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