13-letter words containing h, s, a
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- horseradishes — Plural form of horseradish.
- horseshoe bat — any of numerous large-eared Old World insectivorous bats, mostly of the genus Rhinolophus, with a fleshy growth around the nostrils, used in echolocation: family Rhinolophidae
- hospitability — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- hospital pass — a pass made to a team-mate who will be tackled heavily as soon as the ball is received
- hospital ship — a ship built to serve as a hospital, especially used to treat the wounded in wartime and accorded safe passage by international law.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- host an event — If a hotel or organization hosts an event, it provides the facilities for the event to take place.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- hotheadedness — The state or characteristic of being hotheaded; the tendency to be easily infuriated or provoked.
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
- house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house sparrow — a small, hardy, buffy-brown and gray bird, Passer domesticus, of Europe, introduced into America, Australia, etc.
- house trailer — a trailer fitted with accommodations for sleeping, eating, washing, etc.
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- household art — any of the skills necessary to the efficient running of a household, as cooking or keeping a family budget.
- househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- humanitarians — Plural form of humanitarian.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hydrarthrosis — a build-up of fluid or water in the cavity of a joint, esp the knee joint
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
- hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
- hymnal stanza — common measure (def 2).
- hymnal-stanza — common time.
- hyper-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.