16-letter words containing u, r, t, i
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- health authority — a government agency that is responsible for NHS care in a particular area
- health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
- heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
- heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- hit-and-run raid — a raid relying on surprise allied to a rapid departure from the scene of operations for the desired effect
- holier-than-thou — obnoxiously pious; sanctimonious; self-righteous.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- horizontal union — a labor union organized by skills or trades of its members rather than by industries.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
- hunt the slipper — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden slipper or other object, such as a thimble (hunt the thimble)
- huyton-with-roby — an urban district in Merseyside, NW England, E of Liverpool.
- hybrid perpetual — a type of cultivated rose bred from varieties having vigorous growth and more or less recurrent bloom.
- hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
- hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hyperpituitarism — overactivity of the pituitary gland.
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
- hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- ichthyophthirius — ich.
- immelmann (turn) — a maneuver in which an airplane is half looped to an upside-down position and then half rolled back to normal, upright flight: used to gain altitude while reversing direction
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- impact structure — a large geologic formation, as a crater, created by a comet's or meteor's collision with a planet.
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- imperturbability — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
- in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.