13-letter words containing h, e, d, r
- pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
- paper-shelled — having a thin, easily broken shell: paper-shelled nuts.
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
- patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
- pearl-handled — having a handle made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- pedal pushers — women's short trousers
- peppered moth — a European geometrid moth, Biston betularia, occurring in a pale grey speckled form in rural areas and a black form in industrial regions
- perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- phosphoretted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
- phosphuretted — treated or combined with phosphorus
- photodetector — photosensor.
- photorecorder — a device for making photographic records.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- powder method — a method of x-ray determination of crystal structure using a powdered sample.
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- presidentship — presidency.
- pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- pretendership — the standing of a pretender
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
- radiesthesist — a practitioner of radiesthesia
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- 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.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
- 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.
- receding chin — if somebody has a receding chin, it does not stick out and appears to slope backwards, giving the appearance of a weak jawline
- record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- redondo beach — a city in SW California.
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rhadamanthine — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.