13-letter words containing e, r, n, s
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
- house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house surgeon — a surgeon who lives in a hospital in which he or she is on call.
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- humorlessness — The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- hunter's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
- hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
- hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperpersonal — Very highly personal.
- hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
- hypersplenism — an abnormal condition characterized by an enlarged spleen that prematurely destroys red blood cells or platelets.
- hypersthenite — a person who possesses an excess of muscle strength
- hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
- imaginariness — The state of being imaginary.
- immersiveness — The quality or degree of being immersive.
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- impartialness — The quality of being impartial.
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperfectness — of, relating to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses: imperfect vision.
- imperiousness — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- imperseverant — lacking the power to perceive
- impersonalise — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalism — the practice of maintaining impersonal relations with individuals or groups.
- impersonality — absence of human character or of the traits associated with the human character: He feared the impersonality of a mechanized world.