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14-letter words containing u, n, h, e

  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gunter's 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.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
  • harlequinesque — in the manner of a harlequin.
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
  • haven't a clue — If you haven't a clue about something, you do not know anything about it or you have no idea what to do about it.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hermann muller — Hermann Joseph, 1890–1967, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1946.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • hognosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • homme du monde — a man of the world; a sophisticate.
  • honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
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