13-letter words containing h, i, t, o, r
- phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
- phycoerythrin — a red protein pigment occurring in red algae.
- physiotherapy — physical therapy.
- phytonutrient — phytochemical.
- phytosanitary — of or relating to the health of plants
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- pistol shrimp — any common shrimp of the family Alphaeidae, distinguished by the snapping sound made by its enlarged claw.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- polyarthritis — arthritis occurring in more than one joint.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
- 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).
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- premonishment — a forewarning
- primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- 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.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
- prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychohistory — history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- 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.
- rhythmization — the act or process of rhythmizing something
- ride the rods — to steal a ride on a freight train
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- right-to-know — of or relating to laws or policies that make certain government or company data and records available to any individual who has a right or need to know their contents.
- right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
- right-to-work — of or relating to the right of workers to gain or keep employment whether or not they belong to a labor union.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.