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13-letter words containing u, n, h

  • 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
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • 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.
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
  • 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
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • 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.
  • quanah parker — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
  • queen's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • quintillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 18 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 30 zeros.
  • quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • 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)
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
  • 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.
  • round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
  • 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.
  • run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
  • 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.
  • san juan hill — a hill in SE Cuba, near Santiago de Cuba: captured by U.S. forces in battle during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
  • saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
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