13-letter words containing s, h, u, n
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- honors course — a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.
- honour school — (at Oxford University) one of the courses of study leading to an honours degree
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hors concours — noting an artist, architect, or the like, not competing or not qualified to compete for the prizes in an exhibit or competition.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- hound's tooth — a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.
- house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
- house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
- house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house surgeon — a surgeon who lives in a hospital in which he or she is on call.
- house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- 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.
- househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
- houselessness — Lack of a house; homelessness.
- 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
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- 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.
- humorlessness — The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- 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.