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13-letter words containing d, a, p, h, n

  • hypohydration — Dehydration.
  • ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • indian physic — American ipecac.
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
  • misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
  • orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
  • patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
  • pearl-handled — having a handle made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
  • pharaoh hound — one of a breed of medium-sized gazehounds with a smooth coat, red to tan in color with white markings, and erect ears.
  • phase encoded — (storage)   (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
  • phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
  • phong shading — (graphics)   A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
  • phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • 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
  • pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.
  • pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
  • prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
  • psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
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