13-letter words containing s, u, h, a, r
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- church slavic — a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
- countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
- 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
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grass sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as Sudan grass, grown for pasturage and hay.
- 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.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
- hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.