13-letter words containing u, n, r, s, h
- humorlessness — The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- hunter's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
- hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- monmouthshire — a historic county in E Wales, now part of Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, and South Glamorgan.
- mushroom town — a town that has grown very quickly
- neurohormones — Plural form of neurohormone.
- neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
- nursery rhyme — a short, simple poem or song for very young children, as Hickory Dickory Dock.
- on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
- orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- osborne house — a house near Cowes on the Isle of Wight: the favourite residence of Queen Victoria, who died there; now a convalescent home
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals