13-letter words containing h
- aeromechanics — the mechanics of gases, esp air
- aerophilately — the study or collection of airmail stamps, cancellations, etc.
- aesthetically — in an aesthetic manner
- aestheticians — Plural form of aesthetician.
- aestheticized — Simple past tense and past participle of aestheticize.
- aestheticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aestheticize.
- affenpinscher — a small wire-haired breed of dog of European origin, having tufts of hair on the muzzle
- affreightment — a contract hiring a ship to carry goods
- after a while — some time later
- afterthoughts — Plural form of afterthought.
- age hardening — the hardening of metals by spontaneous structural changes over a period of time
- agrochemicals — Plural form of agrochemical.
- agrostography — a treatise on grasses.
- ahead of time — If you do something ahead of time, you do it before a particular event or before you need to, in order to be well prepared.
- ahistorically — In an ahistorical way.
- ailurophiliac — Appropriate or pleasing to ailurophiles.
- air discharge — Air discharge is a method for testing ESD-protection structures in which the ESD generator is discharged through an air gap between the generator and the device under test.
- air freshener — An air freshener is a product people can buy which is meant to make rooms smell pleasant.
- air hardening — a process of hardening high-alloy steels by heating and cooling in a current of air
- air-breathing — (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.
- air-hardening — noting any metal, especially alloy steel, that can be hardened from above its transformation point by cooling in air.
- airheadedness — The quality of being airheaded.
- airworthiness — (of an aircraft) meeting established standards for safe flight; equipped and maintained in condition to fly.
- alcan highway — Alaska Highway
- alchemistical — relating to alchemists
- alcohol abuse — the excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks
- alcohol patch — a patch impregnated with the drug mecamylamine, which is worn on the skin by someone trying to reduce his or her craving for alcohol
- alcoholically — in an alcoholic manner
- alcoholometer — an instrument, such as a specially calibrated hydrometer, for determining the percentage of alcohol in a liquid
- alcoholometry — the process of measuring the concentration of alcohol in a liquid, such as in blood or a liquor
- all over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- all the while — You use all the while in order to say that something happens continually or that it happens throughout the time when something else is happening.
- all-cash deal — An all-cash deal is a financial transaction in which the payment is made entirely in money.
- allelomorphic — relating to alleles
- allhallowtide — the season of All Saints' Day (Allhallows)
- allied health — a segment of healthcare professions comprised of specialized occupations that require certification, including physical therapists, dental hygienists, social workers, speech therapists, nutritionists, etc., but not including doctors, nurses, and dentists.
- alligatorfish — a slender marine fish, Aspidophoroides monopterygius, of Atlantic seas, having overlapping plates covering the body.
- allochromatic — Physical Chemistry. pertaining to or having photochemical properties resulting from an impurity or from exposure to radiation.
- allochthonous — (of rocks, deposits, etc) found in a place other than where they or their constituents were formed
- allophanamide — biuret.
- allotriomorph — (geology) A mineral that did not develop its otherwise typical external crystal form because of late crystallization between earlier formed crystals, typical of matrix minerals in rapidly crystallizing volcanic lavas and shallow igneous intrusions.
- allotriophagy — (rare) Having food cravings that are different from the expected or the norm.
- allyl alcohol — a colourless pungent poisonous liquid used in the manufacture of resins, plasticizers, and other organic chemicals. Formula: CH2:CHCH2OH; relative density: 0.85; melting pt: –129°C; boiling pt: 96.9°C
- allylthiourea — thiosinamine.
- almond-shaped — oval
- along the way — If something happens on the way or along the way, it happens during the course of a particular event or process.
- alongshoreman — a person employed to load and unload ships
- alonzo church — (person) A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambda-calculus and posited a version of the Church-Turing thesis.
- alpha aquilae — Altair
- alpha aurigae — Capella