13-letter words containing e, t, h, o, s, m
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- exanthematous — Of or pertaining to exanthem.
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
- gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
- get somewhere — to make progress
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
- haemarthrosis — Alternative form of hemarthrosis.
- haematogenous — producing blood
- haematologist — A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.
- harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- head of steam — momentum; driving power
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hematogenesis — hematopoiesis.
- hematologists — Plural form of hematologist.
- hematophagous — feeding on blood, as the vampire bat.
- hematopoiesis — the formation of blood.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- hetero-sexism — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
- heterogametes — Plural form of heterogamete.
- heterostylism — the condition of being heterostyled
- histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
- homeothermous — remaining at an almost constant temperature
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
- homoeroticism — a tendency to be sexually aroused by a member of the same sex.
- homogeneities — Plural form of homogeneity.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- homosexuality — sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex.
- honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
- horse's mouth — horse (def 36).
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- housemistress — A female teacher in charge of a dormitory at a boarding school.
- hunter's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
- 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.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- hysterotomies — Plural form of hysterotomy.