13-letter words containing ut
- hand-to-mouth — offering or providing the barest livelihood, sustenance, or support; meager; precarious: a hand-to-mouth existence.
- haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
- haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
- haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
- have the guts — be brave enough
- hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- homeoteleuton — a series of words with the same or similar endings.
- horse's mouth — horse (def 36).
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypereutectic — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
- hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- illocutionary — pertaining to a linguistic act performed by a speaker in producing an utterance, as suggesting, warning, promising, or requesting.
- immutableness — The state of being immutable; unchangeableness.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- in a nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- inconsecutive — not consecutive.
- 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 mutiny — a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- institutional — of, relating to, or established by institution.
- interlocution — conversation; dialogue.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- intervolution — (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
- just a minute — wait, stop
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
- lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
- little cuttle — a small cuttlefish, Sepiola atlantica, often found on beaches
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- luteinization — to produce corpora lutea in.
- macadamia nut — edible seed
- macromutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
- macronutrient — Nutrition. any of the nutritional components of the diet that are required in relatively large amounts: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and the macrominerals.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- martin luther — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- metaevolution — (philosophy, biology) The evolution of the elements of evolutionary systems.