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13-letter words containing s, h, i, n, u

  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
  • housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
  • hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
  • humanitarians — Plural form of humanitarian.
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hunting pinks — the traditional attire worn by people in Britain while fox hunting, the distinguishing feature of which is a scarlet jacket
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
  • in a nutshell — the shell of a nut.
  • in silhouette — If you see something in silhouette, you see it as a dark shape with no detail except for the outline.
  • in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • inexhaustible — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inexhaustibly — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inhomogeneous — lack of homogeneity.
  • insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
  • issuing house — a financial institution that engages in finding capital for established companies or for private firms wishing to convert to public companies, by issuing shares on their behalf
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
  • judah ha-nasi — Judah, Judah ha-Nasi.
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
  • jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • languishingly — In a languishing manner.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
  • malthusianism — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
  • mansion house — the residence of the Lord Mayor of London
  • meeting house — a house or building for religious worship.
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