13-letter words containing h, a, n, o
- intrathoracic — (anatomy) Within the thorax.
- jequitinhonha — a river in E Brazil, flowing from the state of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- johann herder — Johann Gottfried von [yoh-hahn gawt-freet fuh n] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈgɔt frit fən/ (Show IPA), 1744–1803, German philosopher and poet.
- johann tetzel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1465?–1519, German monk: antagonist of Martin Luther.
- john marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence) A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- john o'groats — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
- john of gaunt — John of, John of Gaunt.
- johnny canuck — a personification of Canada
- johnny collar — a small, pointed collar on a shirt, dress bodice, or the like, with close-fitting neckline.
- johnson grass — a sorghum, Sorghum halepense, that spreads by creeping rhizomes, grown for fodder.
- jonathan spot — a disease of stored apples, especially the Jonathan, characterized by circular lesions on the fruit.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- karaoke night — a social occasion when karaoke sessions are held for entertainment, often in a pub or bar
- kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- know by heart — have memorized
- krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
- lamellaphones — Plural form of lamellaphone.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- leishmaniosis — Alt form leishmaniasis.
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- lo and behold — Lo and behold or lo is used to emphasize a surprising event that is about to be mentioned, or to emphasize in a humorous way that something is not surprising at all.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- loathsomeness — The property or nature that gives rise to revulsion, that inspires loathing.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- lonely hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
- lonely-hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- maccheroncini — thin pasta tubes made from wheat flour
- machicolation — an opening in the floor between the corbels of a projecting gallery or parapet, as on a wall or in the vault of a passage, through which missiles, molten lead, etc., might be cast upon an enemy beneath.
- machine error — an error caused by a fault or defect in a machine rather than by human error
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetosheath — the region between the magnetopause of the earth or of some other planet and the shock front caused by the solar wind.