13-letter words containing hu
- pressure hull — the inner, pressure-resistant hull of a submarine.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
- rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
- shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
- shulhan arukh — an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom compiled by the Talmudic scholar Joseph Caro (1488–1575), the original edition published in Vienna in 1565 emphasizing the practices of Sephardic Jews.
- shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- shut the door — put up a barrier
- shutter speed — speed (def 5b).
- space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
- superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
- sweet sorghum — sorgo.
- the hué river — a river in central Vietnam that crosses the port of Hué
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- thumb through — leaf quickly through
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- thunder sheet — a large sheet of metal that can be shaken to produce a noise resembling thunder as a sound effect for a theatrical production
- thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
- thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
- thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
- thunderstroke — a stroke of lightning accompanied by thunder.
- thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- tin parachute — an employment agreement guaranteeing a worker compensation, especially in the form of bonuses and benefits, in the event of dismissal as a result of a merger or takeover.
- toilet humour — scatological or vulgar jokes
- transhumanism — a philosophy that explores human transcendence above or beyond organic, corporeal limitations through technological and philosophical evolution.
- treasure hunt — a game in which each person or team attempts to be first in finding something that has been hidden, using written directions or clues.
- unhurtfulness — the state of being unhurtful
- virtual human — a computer-generated moving image of a human being, used esp in films as an extra in large crowd scenes
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- zarathustrian — Zoroaster.