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15-letter words containing u, n, s, e

  • heterochthonous — not indigenous; foreign (opposed to autochthonous): heterochthonous flora and fauna.
  • heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
  • high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
  • hog-nosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • homo economicus — a theoretical human being who rationally calculates the costs and benefits of every action before making a decision, used as the basis for a number of economic theories and models
  • homogeneousness — (rare) homogeneity, the state of having a uniform composition.
  • honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
  • household linen — items made of cloth, such as tablecloths, sheets, and pillowcases, that are used in the home
  • housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
  • hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
  • hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hunt the wumpus — (games, history)   (Or "Wumpus") /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by Gregory Yob in about 1973. Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at People's Computing Company (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter. ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1972-3. Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 USENET article <[email protected]>, posted the BASIC source code of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games", by Digital Equipment Corporation. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and M"obius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five "crooked arrows"; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added "anaerobic termites" that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). There have been many ports including one distributed with SunOS, a freeware one for the Macintosh and a C emulation by ESR.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hyperinsulinism — excessive insulin in the blood, resulting in hypoglycemia.
  • hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
  • hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
  • i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
  • ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
  • ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
  • ignominiousness — The state or quality of being ignominious.
  • illustriousness — The state of being illustrious.
  • image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immune response — any of the body's immunologic reactions to an antigen.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
  • impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
  • implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
  • importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
  • in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
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