13-letter words containing i, n, h, o, t
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
- earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
- 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?
- electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
- enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- ethanoic acid — acetic acid
- ethanoylation — Acetylation.
- ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
- euthanization — The act or process of euthanizing.
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- eventide home — a retirement home
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- exhibitionist — A person who behaves in an extravagant way in order to attract attention.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- faction fight — a fight between rival Black groups, usually originating in tribal or clan feuds
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- fashion shoot — an event at which photographs are taken of people wearing fashionable clothes
- fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
- fighting cock — a gamecock.
- fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- 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.
- floodlighting — Present participle of floodlight.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- foot-in-mouth — (of a statement) inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- 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.