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

  • open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
  • openmouthedly — in a manner filled with amazement and wonder
  • ordzhonikidze — Also, Orjonikidze. former name of Vladikavkaz.
  • orthohydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in the same direction.
  • overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
  • overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • phase encoded — (storage)   (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
  • phonendoscope — an instrument that amplifies small sounds, esp within the human body
  • phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • redondo beach — a city in SW California.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
  • round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
  • 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.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
  • spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
  • stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
  • stony-hearted — hardhearted.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
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