13-letter words containing s, h, u, t, i
- dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- 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.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- 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
- 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?
- entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
- 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.
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
- extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
- extinguishing — Present participle of extinguish.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- 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.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- 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.
- helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
- hermit thrush — a North American thrush, Hylocichla guttata, noted for its complex and appealing song.
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hiatus hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
- highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- homosexuality — sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex.
- hortus siccus — a collection of dried plants; herbarium.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house trailer — a trailer fitted with accommodations for sleeping, eating, washing, etc.
- house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housemistress — A female teacher in charge of a dormitory at a boarding school.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.