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13-letter words containing h, a, y, l

  • nightmarishly — In a nightmarish manner.
  • nizhniy tagil — city in W Russia, in the EC Urals: pop. 429,000
  • nonhaemolytic — relating to a transfusion reaction in which the red blood cells survive
  • nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
  • nonyl alcohol — any of several colorless or light-yellow, liquid, water-soluble isomers of the formula C 9 H 2 0 O, especially having a roselike odor: used chiefly in perfumery and flavoring.
  • north babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • northeasterly — of or located in the northeast.
  • octyl alcohol — any of a group of isomers having the formula C 8 H 1 8 O, especially used in making perfumes and as a solvent.
  • oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
  • oleyl alcohol — an unsaturated, fatty alcohol, derived from oleic acid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O, used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
  • ophthalmology — the branch of medical science dealing with the anatomy, functions, and diseases of the eye.
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
  • orthoepically — In terms of correct pronunciation.
  • orthogonality — (mathematics, statistics) the property of being orthogonal.
  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
  • paleethnology — (formerly) the branch of ethnology concerned with the earliest or most primitive human societies.
  • parapophysial — of or relating to a parapophysis
  • 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.
  • patriarchally — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • peripherality — the quality of being peripheral
  • perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phantasmality — the condition or character of being incorporeal and illusory
  • pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
  • phenomenality — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
  • phenylalanine — a crystalline, water-soluble, essential amino acid, C 6 H 5 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, necessary to the nutrition of humans and most animals, obtained chiefly from egg white or skim milk. Symbol: F. Abbreviation: Phe;
  • phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
  • phenylmethane — toluene.
  • phony-baloney — nonsense; baloney.
  • phosphorylase — any enzyme, occurring widely in animal and plant tissue, that in the presence of an inorganic phosphate catalyzes the conversion of glycogen into sugar phosphate.
  • phosphorylate — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • photo gallery — display of collected photographs
  • phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
  • phyllophagous — (of an organism) feeding on leaves.
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • physicalistic — of or relating to physicalism.
  • physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • physiological — of or relating to physiology.
  • phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
  • phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
  • phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
  • plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
  • platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
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