13-letter words containing t, h, u, r, i
- 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.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- 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.
- hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- 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 pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
- hunter-killer — of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
- hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypereutectic — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
- hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- 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.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- martin luther — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
- 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.
- 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.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- mother liquor — the portion of a solution remaining after crystallization of its important component.