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13-letter words containing d, p, h, i

  • 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.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • triple-header — a set of three games, as of basketball, each game being played in the same arena on the same day and often between different pairs of teams.
  • turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
  • typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  • underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
  • unreplenished — not replenished or refilled
  • well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
  • white pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
  • zila parishad — a district council in India
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