13-letter words containing a, l, m, n, h
- non-ephemeral — lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood.
- nonhaemolytic — relating to a transfusion reaction in which the red blood cells survive
- nonhomosexual — a person who is not homosexual
- nonmechanical — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- normal school — (formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high-school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.
- normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
- organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
- parental home — a school for problem children.
- penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
- phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
- phantasmality — the condition or character of being incorporeal and illusory
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- phenomenality — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
- phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
- phenylmethane — toluene.
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- pomme blanche — breadroot.
- pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- shamelessness — lacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- slàinte mhath — a drinking toast; cheers
- small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
- synophthalmia — cyclopia.
- team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
- triethylamine — a colorless, flammable liquid, C 6 H 15 N, used chiefly as a solvent in chemical synthesis.
- ultramarathon — any footrace of 50 or more miles.
- unimpeachable — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
- unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
- unsmotherable — unquenchable
- virtual human — a computer-generated moving image of a human being, used esp in films as an extra in large crowd scenes
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.