13-letter words containing h, o, n, r, i
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- 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.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- 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.
- frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
- gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- 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.
- gilmore, john — John Gilmore
- 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.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
- gopher client — (networking) A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
- grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
- half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
- harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
- harmonisation — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonization.
- harmonization — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heart monitor — a machine that registers the activity of the heart
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
- hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
- herborization — the act or process of herborizing
- herniorrhaphy — correction of a hernia by a suturing procedure.
- 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.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.