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14-letter words containing hu

  • ailanthus moth — a large moth (Philosamia cynthia) native to E Asia and now established in the E U.S., whose larvae (ailanthus silkworms) feed on ailanthus leaves and produce an inferior silk in making their cocoons
  • anthropophuism — the attribution of human qualities to gods
  • antihumanistic — being opposed to humanism
  • aqueous humour — the watery fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens
  • bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
  • bengal catechu — catechu.
  • bible-thumping — an evangelist or other person who quotes the Bible frequently, especially as a means of exhortation or rebuke.
  • bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
  • church council — (in certain Lutheran churches) a body of lay delegates chosen from the congregation and charged with supporting the pastor in religious instruction, contributions to the church, etc.
  • church integer — (theory)   A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
  • church of rome — the Roman Catholic Church
  • church service — an instance of a religious service in a church
  • church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
  • church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
  • church, alonzo — Alonzo Church
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
  • drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
  • figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • guangxi zhuang — an administrative division in S China. 85,096 sq. mi. (220,399 sq. km). Capital: Nanning.
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hubbard squash — a variety of winter squash having a green or yellow skin and yellow flesh.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • hugger-muggery — hugger-mugger (defs 1, 2).
  • 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.
  • humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
  • humoursomeness — the quality of being humoursome

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