13-letter words containing e, n, h, a
- on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- on the parish — receiving parochial relief
- on the razzle — out enjoying oneself or celebrating, esp while drinking freely
- on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
- one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
- 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.
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
- orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
- oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
- orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- orthogonalize — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overbreathing — hyperventilation
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- paleethnology — (formerly) the branch of ethnology concerned with the earliest or most primitive human societies.
- pallas athena — Also, Athene [uh-thee-nee] /əˈθi ni/ (Show IPA). Also called Pallas, Pallas Athena. the virgin deity of the ancient Greeks worshiped as the goddess of wisdom, fertility, the useful arts, and prudent warfare. At her birth she sprang forth fully armed from the head of her father, Zeus. Compare Minerva.
- panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
- pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
- panel heating — heating of a room or building by means of wall, ceiling, floor, or baseboard panels containing heating pipes or electrical conductors.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- paraphernalia — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
- parasynthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parasyntheton — a word formed by parasynthesis; for example, kind-hearted
- parencephalon — a cerebral hemisphere
- parental home — a school for problem children.
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- parenthetical — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
- parry channel — a water channel in N Canada running between Baffin Bay on the E and the Arctic Ocean on the W: separates the Queen Elizabeth Islands (N) from the rest of the Arctic Archipelago.
- part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
- parthenocarpy — the production of fruit without fertilization of an egg in the ovary.
- parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
- parthenospore — a spore developed without fertilization.
- party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities