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13-letter words containing h, o, n, e, d

  • enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • endophenotype — (medicine) any hereditary characteristic that is normally associated with some condition but is not a direct symptom of that condition.
  • endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
  • ethanoic acid — acetic acid
  • ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
  • eventide home — a retirement home
  • fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
  • have a mad on — to be angry
  • hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hendecahedron — a solid figure having 11 faces.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hexanoic acid — caproic acid.
  • hold in leash — to control; curb; restrain
  • hold the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
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