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13-letter words containing u, n, s, h, i

  • disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
  • distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
  • ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
  • ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
  • euphausiacean — a member of the Euphausiacea order of small shrimplike crustaceans
  • euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
  • extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
  • extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
  • extinguishing — Present participle of extinguish.
  • fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
  • grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
  • halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
  • harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
  • 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.
  • hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
  • haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
  • hiatus hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
  • high-sounding — having an impressive or pretentious sound; grand: the high-sounding titles of minor officials.
  • highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
  • hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
  • home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
  • honoris causa — for the sake of honour
  • house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
  • house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
  • house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
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