13-letter words containing h, e, p, l
- pressure hull — the inner, pressure-resistant hull of a submarine.
- 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
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- 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.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- pull the plug — If someone in a position of power pulls the plug on a project or on someone's activities, they use their power to stop them continuing.
- pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- 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
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- 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.
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- 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)
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
- rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
- scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- sheep measles — a disease of sheep caused by infestation by the cysticerci of a dog tapeworm (Taenia ovis)
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- shipping lane — sea lane.
- shipping line — a business that operates ships, which it may or may not own
- shirley poppy — a cultivated strain of the corn poppy, having variously colored single or double flowers.
- shoulder loop — a flap on each shoulder of a service uniform on which metallic insignia of rank are worn by commissioned and warrant officers in the Army, Air Force, and Marines.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver