15-letter words containing t, h, e, u

hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
hunt the wumpus — (games, history) (Or "Wumpus") /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by Gregory Yob in about 1973. Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at People's Computing Company (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter. ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1972-3. Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 USENET article <[email protected]>, posted the BASIC source code of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games", by Digital Equipment Corporation. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and M"obius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five "crooked arrows"; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added "anaerobic termites" that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). There have been many ports including one distributed with SunOS, a freeware one for the Macintosh and a C emulation by ESR.
hunter-gatherer — a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
hunting leopard — the cheetah.
huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
in (the) future — You use in future when saying what will happen from now on, which will be different from what has previously happened. The form in the future is sometimes used instead, especially in American English.
in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
inauthentically — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
john ousterhout — (person) /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
joseph pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
kick the bucket — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
leathery turtle — a large turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, of warm and tropical seas, having a ridged leathery carapace: family Dermochelidae
lecture theatre — auditorium
lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
lithium battery — A lithium battery is a type of battery used for low-power, high-reliability, long-life applications, such as clocks, cameras and calculators.
lithium citrate — a white crystalline solid sometimes used in the treatment of manic-depressive illness and mania. Formula: Li3C6H5O7
lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.

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