13-letter words containing u, n, s, c, h, o
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- honors course — a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.
- honour school — (at Oxford University) one of the courses of study leading to an honours degree
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hors concours — noting an artist, architect, or the like, not competing or not qualified to compete for the prizes in an exhibit or competition.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- non-scheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- 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.
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- 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
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs