13-letter words containing u, r, i, a, h
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- multithreaded — multithreading
- music theatre — a modern musical-dramatic work that is performed on a smaller scale than, and without the conventions of, traditional opera
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
- natural right — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- nonauthorized — Not authorized.
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parish church — local place of worship
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
- soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- straighten up — stand straighter
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.