13-letter words containing u, n, s, h, o, t
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- hound's tooth — a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- 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's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- 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.
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- in silhouette — If you see something in silhouette, you see it as a dark shape with no detail except for the outline.
- 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.
- joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
- 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.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- meeting house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meeting-house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meetinghouses — Plural form of meetinghouse.
- 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
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
- octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
- on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- 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.
- pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- 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