14-letter words containing u, n, h, r, i
- jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- michigan rummy — a variety of five hundred rummy in which each player scores his or her melds as played.
- microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- non-harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
- nonchurchgoing — Not attending church.
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
- overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- parish council — local administrative body
- phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- phloroglucinol — a white to yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in analytical chemistry and in the preparation of pharmaceuticals.
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- plesiochronous — (communications) Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
- porcupine fish — 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.
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
- relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
- ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
- rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
- running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
- running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.