13-letter words containing y, u, h
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
- ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
- groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
- group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
- harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
- heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
- heavily built — with a big heavy body
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- heusler alloy — any of various alloys of manganese and other nonferromagnetic metals that exhibit ferromagnetism.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- holy saturday — the Saturday in Holy Week.
- holy thursday — Ascension Day.
- holyroodhouse — a royal palace in Edinburgh in Scotland: official residence of the Queen when in Scotland; begun in 1501 by James IV of Scotland; scene of the murder of David Rizzio in 1566
- homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- homosexuality — sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex.
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
- house of keys — the lower house of the legislature of the Isle of Man.
- housey-housey — house (def 19).
- how-do-you-do — a greeting; salutation: She smiled and gave him a how-do-you-do fit for a king.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- humpty dumpty — an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.
- humpty-dumpty — an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
- hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
- hydraulically — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
- hydronium ion — the hydrogen ion bonded to a molecule of water, H 3 O + , the form in which hydrogen ions are found in aqueous solution.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.