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13-letter words containing h, e, a, l, r

  • photo gallery — display of collected photographs
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • phototelegram — a telegram that is sent by means of phototelegraphy
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
  • pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
  • plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
  • reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
  • royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
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