14-letter words containing u, t, h
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- how about that — delight, surprise
- human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
- humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humidification — to make humid.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
- huntsman's-cup — a common pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
- hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
- hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
- hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
- hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
- hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
- hypothalamus's — a region of the brain, between the thalamus and the midbrain, that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc., and that acts as an endocrine gland by producing hormones, including the releasing factors that control the hormonal secretions of the pituitary gland.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
- in hot pursuit — If you are in hot pursuit of someone, you are chasing after them with great determination.
- in league with — along with, plotting with
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- in the picture — informed about a given situation
- in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
- inauthenticity — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- it's just that — You use the expression it's just that when you are making a complaint, suggestion, or excuse, so that the person you are talking to will not get annoyed with you.
- jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
- jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- just like that — suddenly
- just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
- khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.