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13-letter words containing u, n, h, a

  • mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
  • mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • muhammadanism — Islam.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • national hunt — the racing of horses on racecourses with jumps
  • natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
  • natural death — death that occurs from natural causes, as disease or old age, rather than from violence or an accident.
  • natural right — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
  • neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
  • neurohormonal — pertaining to or controlled by a neurohormone.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • nonauthorized — Not authorized.
  • nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
  • nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
  • nonhomosexual — a person who is not homosexual
  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
  • not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
  • nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
  • novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
  • nut chocolate — chocolate containing nuts
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
  • orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • p'u-t'ung hua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
  • patch pumpkin — pumpkin
  • peanut heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • pharaoh hound — one of a breed of medium-sized gazehounds with a smooth coat, red to tan in color with white markings, and erect ears.
  • phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
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