13-letter words containing ur
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- holy saturday — the Saturday in Holy Week.
- holy thursday — Ascension Day.
- honors course — a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.
- honour bright — an exclamation pledging honour
- honour school — (at Oxford University) one of the courses of study leading to an honours degree
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- hors concours — noting an artist, architect, or the like, not competing or not qualified to compete for the prizes in an exhibit or competition.
- horticultural — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
- house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
- house surgeon — a surgeon who lives in a hospital in which he or she is on call.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- 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
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hyposulfurous — of or derived from hyposulfurous acid.
- hyposulphuric — relating to sulphur which is in a lower state of oxidation than it is in sulphuric compounds
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- ideal mixture — An ideal mixture is a mixture in which the concentration of any part taken from it is the same as the average for the whole.
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- imperturbable — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- imperturbably — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- inaugurations — Plural form of inauguration.
- income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- inculturation — enculturation.
- incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.
- incuriousness — The state of being incurious; indifference or apathy.
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
- indian turnip — the jack-in-the-pulpit.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
- ingurgitating — Present participle of ingurgitate.
- ingurgitation — The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed.
- injured party — victim
- injuriousness — The quality of being injurious.
- inner harbour — a part of a harbour which is further inland
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- insurrections — Plural form of insurrection.