13-letter words containing h, a, t, i, e
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- heat capacity — the heat required to raise the temperature of a substance one degree.
- heat equation — a partial differential equation the solution of which gives the distribution of temperature in a region as a function of space and time when the temperature at the boundaries, the initial distribution of temperature, and the physical properties of the medium are specified.
- heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- heavily built — with a big heavy body
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- heavy petting — Informal. intense petting that involves mutual stimulation of the genitals but not sexual intercourse.
- hecate strait — a strait in central British Columbia, Canada, between the mainland and the Queen Charlotte Islands. 160 miles (257 km) long and 40–80 miles (64–129 km) wide.
- heir apparent — an heir whose right is indefeasible, provided he or she survives the ancestor.
- helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
- helianthine b — methyl orange.
- heliotropical — heliotropic
- hellenization — to make Greek in character.
- hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
- helminthiasis — a disease caused by parasitic worms in the intestines.
- hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
- hematogenesis — hematopoiesis.
- hematological — Hematologic.
- hematologists — Plural form of hematologist.
- hematopoiesis — the formation of blood.
- hematopoietic — the formation of blood.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemolymphatic — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- heortological — of or relating to heortology
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- herborization — the act or process of herborizing
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
- heritage site — a historical site, a building, or an area of the unspoilt natural environment, considered to be important to a country or area's heritage
- hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
- hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heterarchical — Of or pertaining to heterarchy.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.