13-letter words containing h, o, r, m, n, e
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- over-vehement — characterized by rancor or anger; violent: vehement hostility.
- parental home — a school for problem children.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- premonishment — a forewarning
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- 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.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
- the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
- the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
- theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- thermocurrent — a thermoelectric current.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thermoelement — a device made up of a heating mechanism and a thermocouple and used to measure small currents
- thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
- thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
- think more of — to have a higher opinion of
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- throw someone — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- time-honoured — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- trench mortar — a portable, muzzle-loaded mortar, usually having a smooth bore, fired at high angles of elevation to reach concealed enemy targets.
- trimethadione — a synthetic, white, crystalline powder, C 6 H 9 NO 3 , used as an anticonvulsant to control petit mal epileptic seizures.
- unsmotherable — unquenchable
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool