13-letter words containing h, o, s, t, c, n
- country house — A country house is a large, often attractive, house in the country, usually one that is or was owned by a rich or noble family.
- crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crotchetiness — The state or quality of being crotchety.
- crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cystathionine — an amino acid, C 7 H 14 O 4 N 2 S, that is an intermediate in the transfer of sulfur from methionine to cysteine.
- cytochalasins — Plural form of cytochalasin.
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- 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.).
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
- heterostracan — any of several ostracoderms of the order Heterostraci, from the Silurian and Devonian Periods, having the anterior part of the body enclosed in bony plates.
- historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
- histrionicism — histrionic behaviour or acts
- hitching post — a post to which horses, mules, etc., are tied.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
- honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
- ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.