13-letter words containing t, r, e, h, o, u
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
- 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
- depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
- ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
- 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.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
- haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
- heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
- heart trouble — cardiac condition
- hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- heterogeneous — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- heteropterous — belonging or pertaining to the Heteroptera, in some classifications a suborder of hemipterous insects comprising the true bugs.
- heterosexuals — Plural form of heterosexual.
- heterosporous — having more than one kind of spore.
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- homeothermous — remaining at an almost constant temperature
- horse's mouth — horse (def 36).
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- 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-trained — housebroken.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.