13-letter words containing s, h, t, u
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- 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 moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
- hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- 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.
- hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypertrophous — relating to hypertrophy
- hyposexuality — A significantly low level of sexuality.
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- 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.
- isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
- just the same — identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned: This street is the same one we were on yesterday.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- 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.
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- leptophyllous — (of plants) having long slender leaves
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- 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.
- massachusetts — a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8257 sq. mi. (21,385 sq. km). Capital: Boston. Abbreviation: MA (for use with zip code), Mass.
- meeting house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meeting-house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meetinghouses — Plural form of meetinghouse.
- merrythoughts — Plural form of merrythought.
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- missel thrush — mistle thrush.
- mistle thrush — a large, European thrush, Turdus viscivorus, that feeds on the berries of the mistletoe.
- monmouthshire — a historic county in E Wales, now part of Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, and South Glamorgan.