13-letter words containing u, n, h, r, i
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- nonauthorized — Not authorized.
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- phytonutrient — phytochemical.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- return flight — a flight going back
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- run away with — 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.
- runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
- runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
- running light — any of various lights required to be displayed by a vessel or aircraft operating between sunset and sunrise.
- rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
- ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
- straighten up — stand straighter